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

Michael Bloomberg

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" 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. "

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" You can't sit there and worry about everything. "

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" And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you. "

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Believe In Yourself

" I mean, you know, we don't live in a perfect world. "

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" These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run. "

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

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" 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. "

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" No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City. "

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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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" 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. "

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" You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor. "

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

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" When I came into office, people said, 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?' Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It's not an issue. "

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" This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen. "

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

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" This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed. "

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" The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy. "

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" 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. "

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" There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas. "

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" The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States. "

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" There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions. "

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" The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan. "

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" We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that. "

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

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Working Together

" There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is astounding. Now, I don't know how you count it; it's some people coming multiple times. "

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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. "

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" Government is dysfunctional. "

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" America is the greatest country on Earth - and when people vote with their feet, they come here. "

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" And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that. "

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