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

Michael Bloomberg

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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? "

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

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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 should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply. "

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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. "

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" I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way. "

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" 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. "

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" I understand the appeal of a businessman president. But Trump's business plan is a disaster in the making. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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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" When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society. "

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

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" 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. "

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