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" Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil. "
Michael Bloomberg
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" Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin. "
Michael Bloomberg
Believe
I Believe
Rights
" I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers. "
Michael Bloomberg
Think
People
End
" And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government. "
Michael Bloomberg
Job
Together
Family
" I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause. "
Michael Bloomberg
Continue
Go
Duty
" I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day. "
Michael Bloomberg
Know
Day
Decisions
" I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way. "
Michael Bloomberg
Way
Something
Build
" I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough! "
Michael Bloomberg
New York
City
Culture
" 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. "
Michael Bloomberg
Way
Society
Rich
" You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success. "
Michael Bloomberg
You
Succeed
Know
" 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
Back
You
Work
" Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card. "
Michael Bloomberg
Country
Think
People
" 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
Time
Technology
You
" China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets. "
Michael Bloomberg
Want
Because
China
" I understand the appeal of a businessman president. But Trump's business plan is a disaster in the making. "
Michael Bloomberg
Understand
Business
Disaster
" 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. "
Michael Bloomberg
City
Blame
Hurricane
" I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy. "
Michael Bloomberg
I Am
Know
Lucky
" We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply. "
Michael Bloomberg
New York
Short
Remember
" I'd be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is. "
Michael Bloomberg
Who
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" Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis. "
Michael Bloomberg
Well
Taxes
Democrats
" We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them. "
Michael Bloomberg
Only
Small
More
" 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. "
Michael Bloomberg
Hands
Victory
Treat
" I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them. "
Michael Bloomberg
Want
Laws
Books
" 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
You
Challenge
Day
" 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. "
Michael Bloomberg
Need
You
Hands
" Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control. "
Michael Bloomberg
Delegate
Control
Power
" There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions. "
Michael Bloomberg
America
Business
Decisions
" Government is dysfunctional. "
Michael Bloomberg
Dysfunctional
Government
" 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
Worse
Proud
Know
" No matter what you may think about her politics or her record, Hillary Clinton understands that this is not reality television; this is reality. She understands the job of president. It involves finding solutions, not pointing fingers; and offering hope, not stoking fear. "
Michael Bloomberg
You
Fear
Hope
" 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
World
America
Day