Michael Bloomberg Quotes

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.

You can't depend on polls.

I don't know why people carry guns. Guns kill people.

Donald Trump says he wants to run America like he's running his business? God help us.

I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.

I thought Jeb Bush would have made a good president. He was on the board of my foundation. He's very conservative, much too conservative for me.

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

If you can't prove it's not true then a certain number of people will glom on and say it is true.

America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.

In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres.

It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.

Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse.

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

A lot can happen in a week - just read any Bible, .. On the seventh day, Election Day, unlike the Bible, we can't rest.

Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine... We’ve got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit.

I tend to be reasonably blunt, maybe a little bit too much. But I just- I always respected people that tell the truth. And I've always wanted people to tell me the truth.

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.

We need our president to be successful because our futures are all tied to the success of America, which means America's government, which means, in essence, the president.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

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

Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic growth - in the here and now.

I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.

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

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

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.

[Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person.

People use so much more health care when they live longer.

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

I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.

The main claim to fame, I think, of Bernie Sanders - who I've never met; I'm sure he's a pleasant guy - [is that] he's certainly not stupid.

Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.

What we shouldn't do is let people who want to come here make the decision themselves. America should be in control of its own borders.

I think it's a sign that the establishment is going to have to change. For too long they never thought about the average person, because the average person is not organized.

I think fully, that an independent candidate can't win in this country. The Constitution is structured for basically a two-party government, a two-party race.

We need to have more taxes, not less, and we need the taxes we have, certainly, to provide services - for defense and education and health care. We should not cut money here in order to cut taxes.

Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute.

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

After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease.

In fact, you see Hillary [Clinton] moving very far to the left. You see all the Republicans moving very far to the right.

Don't think that I'm - I'd- I'm infallible. Will always make mistakes.

We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world.

I don't have a problem with a woman being president; I just want the best candidate.

Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.