Michael Bloomberg
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
kings may pay
Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute.
bridges looks gone
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.
bible election week
A lot can happen in a week - just read any Bible, .. On the seventh day, Election Day, unlike the Bible, we can't rest.
technology years law
In 1975, Congress passed a law requiring fuel efficiency standards to double over 10 years, with incremental targets that auto manufacturers were required to meet. That was the responsible approach, and it worked. But since 1985, we've done nothing - even as technology has moved at light speed.
mistake school parks
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.
dangerous-world people tragedy
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.
mistake done machines
The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.
numbers people certain
If you can't prove it's not true then a certain number of people will glom on and say it is true.
cities america crime
We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.