Michael Bloomberg Quotes

Michael Bloomberg (92)

Birth:	14th February, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Politician

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• You know, if it’s a three-way race, the public has more choice than if it’s a two-way race, and has more choice in a two-way race than a one-way race.

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• You can’t sit there and worry about everything.

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• You can’t depend on polls.

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• When I came into office, people said, ‘Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?’ Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It’s not an issue.

  Michael Bloomberg

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• What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who’s divorced really have of becoming president?

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• We will go forward… we will never go back.

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• We should remember it wasn’t so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.

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• Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas.

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• Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.

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• This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It’s not politically viable; it’s not morally right; it’s just not going to happen.

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• There’s a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is astounding. Now, I don’t know how you count it; it’s some people coming multiple times.

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• There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

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• There is no accountability today… no willingness to focus on big ideas.

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• The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.

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• The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it’s the city or state or federal level – it’s much more horse-trading than analysis.

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• The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. ‘Impeccable credentials’ means you’ve never lived outside the United States.

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• Stubborn isn’t a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

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• Progress really is possible.

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• Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

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• My father worked all the time.

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