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" You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor. "
Michael Bloomberg
Define
Class
You
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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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" 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?' "
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" We will go forward... we will never go back. "
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" We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them. "
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" What has changed is that people have stopped working together. "
Michael Bloomberg
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" 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
Dreams
City
New York
" Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control. "
Michael Bloomberg
Delegate
Control
Power
" People use so much more health care when they live longer. "
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More
Live
" 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. "
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Need
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" Government is dysfunctional. "
Michael Bloomberg
Dysfunctional
Government
" 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
College
New York
School
" I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough! "
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New York
City
Culture
" I've been a Democrat, I've been a Republican, and I eventually became an independent because I don't believe either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership. "
Michael Bloomberg
Ideas
Believe
Good
" 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
" 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
World
Change
You
" You know, if it's a three-way race, the public has more choice than if it's a two-way race, and has more choice in a two-way race than a one-way race. "
Michael Bloomberg
Know
You
Race
" I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way. "
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Way
Something
Build
" I mean, you know, we don't live in a perfect world. "
Michael Bloomberg
Mean
Perfect
Live
" The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States. "
Michael Bloomberg
Never
Credentials
People
" It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach. "
Michael Bloomberg
Protest
Stomach
No Fun
" 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
" 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
" Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff. "
Michael Bloomberg
Help
Trees
Air
" 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. "
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Job
House
Know
" 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
Compete
Financial
Will
" 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. "
Michael Bloomberg
Important
Community
Society
" Progress really is possible. "
Michael Bloomberg
Progress
Possible
Really
" 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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Reason
America
High
" 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
" If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight. "
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Money
Legacy
Fight