Michael Bloomberg
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Michael Bloomberg
Michael "Mike" Rubens Bloombergis an American business magnate, politician, and philanthropist. With a net worth of US$46.7 billion as of July 2016, Bloomberg is the 6th richest person in the United States and the 8th richest in the world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 February 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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The mistake that was made in the '70s is we stopped policing the streets, we stopped cleaning the streets, we stopped cleaning the graffiti off buildings, we stopped supporting our cultural institutions and building parks and schools and all those kinds of things.
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Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.
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You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.
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If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.
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You bet I did and I enjoyed it.
next-day next company
The next day after I got fired, literally the next day, I started a new company.
facts opinion entitled
You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.
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The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.
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If you can't prove it's not true then a certain number of people will glom on and say it is true.
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Organizing around a common interest is a fundamental part of democracy. We should no more try to take away the right of individuals to collectively bargain than we should try to take away the right to a secret ballot.
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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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Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.
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We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.
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We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world.