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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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" The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it. "

Michael Bloomberg

" Government is dysfunctional. "

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

Michael Bloomberg

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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. "

Michael Bloomberg

" Today, as an independent, an entrepreneur, and a former mayor, I believe we need a president who is a problem solver, not a bomb thrower. Someone who can bring members of Congress together to get things done. And I know Hillary Clinton can do that because I saw it firsthand. "

Michael Bloomberg

" 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

" I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge. "

Michael Bloomberg

" The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or federal level - it's much more horse-trading than analysis. "

Michael Bloomberg

" We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001. "

Michael Bloomberg

" 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. "

Michael Bloomberg

" I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda. "

Michael Bloomberg

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

Michael Bloomberg

" What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age. "

Michael Bloomberg

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

Michael Bloomberg

" Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college. "

Michael Bloomberg

" Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion? "

Michael Bloomberg

" I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That's not true... That would let the terrorists win. That's what they want us to do. "

Michael Bloomberg

" 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

" Capitalism works. "

Michael Bloomberg

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

Michael Bloomberg

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

Michael Bloomberg

" On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?' "

Michael Bloomberg

" You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy. "

Michael Bloomberg

" The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change. "

Michael Bloomberg

" 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. "

Michael Bloomberg

" I have the best job I could possibly have. "

Michael Bloomberg

" We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring. "

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 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

" The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress. "

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