Michael Bloomberg Quotes

• Last I looked – and I’m not a candidate – but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It’s most states are winners take all.

  Michael Bloomberg

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• If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it’s the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.

  Michael Bloomberg

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• I’ve always thought if we don’t want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don’t enforce them.

  Michael Bloomberg

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• I’m trying to change the culture in New York City; that’s hard enough!

  Michael Bloomberg

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• I’m not going to run for president. No way, no how.

  Michael Bloomberg

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• I’d be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is.

  Michael Bloomberg

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• I’d be derelict in my duty if I didn’t go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York’s cause.

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• I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there’s one or two people and they say, ‘Great job, Mayor,’ that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn’t find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling – I think they should see the doctor.

  Michael Bloomberg

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• I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.

  Michael Bloomberg

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• I mean, you know, we don’t live in a perfect world.

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• I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way.

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• I have the best job I could possibly have.

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• I don’t know why you should be proud of something. It doesn’t make you any better or worse. You are what you are.

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• I don’t believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it’s so outdated.

  Michael Bloomberg

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• I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I’m happy to be one – or proud to be one.

  Michael Bloomberg

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• Government shouldn’t tell you whom to marry.

  Michael Bloomberg

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• China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.

  Michael Bloomberg

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• Capitalism works.

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• America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.

  Michael Bloomberg

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• What has changed is that people have stopped working together.

  Michael Bloomberg

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Michael Bloomberg (92)

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

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