When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society. (Michael Bloomberg)
I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy. (Michael Bloomberg)
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil. (Michael Bloomberg)
And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that. (Michael Bloomberg)
This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed. (Michael Bloomberg)
Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need. (Michael Bloomberg)
We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not. (Michael Bloomberg)
You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world. (Michael Bloomberg)
Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin. (Michael Bloomberg)
You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China. (Michael Bloomberg)
The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress. (Michael Bloomberg)
You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen. (Michael Bloomberg)
We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high. (Michael Bloomberg)
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