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

Michael Bloomberg

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" 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

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

Michael Bloomberg

" 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

" I'm not going to run for president. No way, no how. "

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

" Capitalism works. "

Michael Bloomberg

" Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need. "

Michael Bloomberg

" 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

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

Michael Bloomberg

" 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

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

Michael Bloomberg

" 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. "

Michael Bloomberg

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

Michael Bloomberg

" America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did. "

Michael Bloomberg

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

Michael Bloomberg

" My father worked all the time. "

Michael Bloomberg

" When the Founding Fathers arrived here in Philadelphia to forge a new nation, they didn't come as Democrats or Republicans or to nominate a presidential candidate. They came as patriots who feared party politics. "

Michael Bloomberg

" Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry. "

Michael Bloomberg

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

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

" Progress really is possible. "

Michael Bloomberg

" 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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

Michael Bloomberg

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

Michael Bloomberg

" 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