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There Will Be Ups, There Will Be Downs, There Will Be Sideways. I Can Just Tell You I Have Been Hired, I Have Been Fired, I Have Been Lauded, I Have Been Vilified. I've Said Some Of The Most Brilliant Things That Just By Accident Appeared On My Tongue, And I've Said Some Of The Dumbest Things That You Could Imagine. But Each Day - Even The Day That I Knew I Was Going To Be Fired - I Looked Forward To Because I've Always Believed That Tomorrow Was Going To Be The Best Day Of My Life.

-Michael Bloomberg

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There Will Be Ups,

Michael Bloomberg

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There Will Be Ups, There Will Be Downs, There Will Be Sideways. I Can Just Tell You I Have Been Hired, I Have Been Fired, I Have Been Lauded, I Have Been Vilified. I've Said Some Of The Most Brilliant Things That Just By Accident Appeared On My Tongue, And I've Said Some Of The Dumbest Things That You Could Imagine. But Each Day - Even The Day That I Knew I Was Going To Be Fired - I Looked Forward To Because I've Always Believed That Tomorrow Was Going To Be The Best Day Of My Life.

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You're Entitled To Your Own Opinions, But Not Your Own Facts.

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Partisanship May Be King In Washington - But The Rest Of Us Don't Have To Pay Tribute.

You Can Buy Almost Anything Anyplace In The World. You Can Get It Delivered In 24 Hours. You Can Pay For It On Credit Or Just By Swiping Something. So, I Don't Know That The World Is Worse Off, In That Context, Than Before.

The Estate Taxes, On Balance, Are Good. They Get People To Give Money To Charity, And They Prevent These Family Dynasties Which Keep Other People From Having Opportunities. It May Be Good For A Family, But For Society It's Probably Not Good. And I've Always Been In Favor Of Having An Estate Tax.

Look At The Streets! The People Have Smiles On Their Faces, They're Hustling And Bustling And Going Places, They're Well-dressed, There's Lots Of Construction Going On. It's Kind Of Hard To Feel Sorry For An Economy Like This.

In Business, When You Fail At Something, When Something Doesn't Work, You Say Okay, We've Learned That That's Not A Path To Go Down.

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.

Millions Of Americans Have Contributed To Building A Stronger Israel; I've Been Proud To Be One Of Them. Last Year, I Went To Jerusalem To Help Dedicate In My Father's Name A New Mda Medical Facility Which Treats People Of All Faiths And All Nationalities Absolutely Equally.

Politicians Generally Respond To Who Is Going To Help Them Get Elected And Re-elected.

I Believe In Judaism, I Was Raised A Jew, I'm Happy To Be One - Or Proud To Be One.

Neither Party Has God On Its Side, A Monopoly On Good Ideas, Or A Lock On Any Single Fiscal, Social, Or Moral Philosophy.

Nobody Should Ever Mistake And Think That Our Country [usa] Is Weakened, Or That Authority Is Diffuse And Unspecified, And That We Are Vulnerable.

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.

What Has Changed Is That People Have Stopped Working Together.

Working Together

Leading From The Front: It's What Built America. But These Days, The Federal Government Isn't At The Front - It's Cowering In The Back Corner Of The Room, Ducking Responsibility And Hoping No One Notices.

Other Ways Of Looking At The Environmental Or Climate Change Stuff Is To Frame It In The Context That It Is Simultaneously A Public Health Issue. One Out Of Eight Premature Deaths Worldwide Happens Because Of Air Pollution. The Worst Power Plant In America Kills 278 People A Year And Causes 445 Heart Attacks. So, When We Improve Air Quality We Improve Our Lives, And At The Same Time We Improve The Climate As Well. We Must See Climate Policy From This Perspective And Not As An Abstract Threat That May Threaten Our Survival In 100 Years.

If You Have One Farm Worker, Typically They Create Three Jobs With Higher Compensation And Higher Skills - The People That Pack, The People That Ship, The People That Inspect, The People That Sell, That Sort Of Thing.

I've Always Wondered If People Who Block Each Other From Expressing Their Opinions Do So Because They Have So Little Confidence In Their Own. To Me, Encountering An Opposing Point Of View Is A Chance To Gain A Deeper Understanding Of The Issues At Stake And Develop My Own Point Of View. But The First Thing You've Got To Do Is You've Got To Let People Speak And You've Got To Listen. And That's What The First Amendment Is All About. That's What Really Distinguishes This Country From Others.

In New York City, A Lot Of People Think "the Great Outdoors" Is The Area Between Your Front Door And A Taxi Cab.

I Know How To Make Decisions And Stand Up To The Criticism Every Day.

I'd Love To Have A President Who Really Was Out There Leading And Traveling Around The World Campaigning For Joint Climate Change Action. Even The Chinese Government Is Trying To Get People To Stop Polluting. And I Think The Federal Government Level In China Is Acting More Responsibly Than The American Government.

If You Want To Know How To Solve Society's Problems, You Start Out With Better Public Education.

Public Education

I Was A Democrat Before I Was A Republican Before I Became An Independent And I Never Changed My Principles.

Funny Graduation

If You Think Of All The Publicity About The Terrible Tragedy Of Virginia Tech, We Have A Virginia Tech In This Country Every Day. It's Just Spread Across 50 States.

In Our Democracy, Near Equality Is No Equality. Government Either Treats Everyone The Same, Or It Doesn't. And Right Now It Doesn't.

My Father, A Bookkeeper Who Never Earned More Than $11,000 A Year In His Life, Sat There, Writing Out A $25 Check To The Naacp. When I Asked Him Why, He Said Discrimination Against Anyone Is Discrimination Against Us All. And I Never Forgot That. Indeed, His Philanthropy Was A Gift, Not Just To That Organization, But To Me.

Design Does Matter. And Not Necessarily In A Way That People Realize. A Lot Of What You Do, People Take For Granted - That A Park Has Always Been Here, That A Bicycle Lane Has Always Been There, That The Street Is Safe Or Clean.

Nobody's Going To Elect Me President Of The United States.

The Fact Is, The Most Painful And Tragic Lesson Of The 20th Century Was That Regimes Based On Racial Superiority And Religious Hatred Can't Be Trusted To Keep Their Word To The International Community.

The Mistake That Was Made In The '70s Is We Stopped Policing The Streets, We Stopped Cleaning The Streets, We Stopped Cleaning The Graffiti Off Buildings, We Stopped Supporting Our Cultural Institutions And Building Parks And Schools And All Those Kinds Of Things.

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.

You Bet I Did And I Enjoyed It.

I Know A Con When I See One.

The System [in U.s.] Is Designed For A Two-party System. And Those Two Parties Have An Interest In Keeping Third Parties Out. There's Too Much Of The Structure That Works In The Two-party Way. They Will Keep The Third Party Out.

If Someone Tells Me They Skied All Day And Never Fell Down, I Tell Them To Find Another Mountain.

People Vote Against Their Own Interests That All The Time. But When You Do The Polling In The U.s., It Has Gone From Less Than 50 Percent Who Thought Climate Change Was Real To 70-odd Percent. And If You Listen To The Republicans In Congress, They Used To Say, "oh, Climate Change Doesn't Exist." Then They Switched To "well, It Exists, But It's Not Man-made," To "well, I'm Going To Address The Issue." Why? Because When They Go Home, The Local Constituent Says, "wait A Second. What Are You Talking About? We Just Had A Flood. We Haven't Had Rain In A Long Time." They Can't Get Away From It.

If You Want To Do Something For Your Children And Show How Much You Love Them, The Single Best Thing-by Far-is To Support Organizations That Will Create A Better World For Them And Their Children.

Any Friend Of Fossil Is A Friend Of Mine... We’ve Got To Do Everything We Can To Get People Out Of Their Automobiles And Into Mass Transit.

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?'

Is Your Company So Small You Have To Do Everything For Yourself? Wait Until You're So Big That You Can't. That's Worse.

Like Israel, New York City's History Has Been Defined By Immigrants Who Come In Search Of Freedom And The Opportunity To Build A Better Life. And Like Israel, New York City Has Remained A Target For Terrorists Who Seek To Destroy That Freedom

After All, The Same Steps That Reduce Carbon Pollution Also Clean The Air We Breathe, Which Saves Lives And Reduces Disease.

We Cannot Continue. Our Pension Costs And Health Care Costs For Our Employees Are Going To Bankrupt This City.

Others May Doubt Us. They May Criticize Us. They May Try To Deny Us What Is Rightfully Ours. But They Will Fail. And I Promise You, As Long As I Am Mayor, I Will Never Back Away From Fighting Any Opponent - Or Confronting Any Obstacle - That Would Prevent Our People From Achieving All Of Their Dreams In Our New York.

I Think We Are Not Serious About Attacking The Long-term Debt Problem, And That's One Of The Things That He's Going To Have To Find A Way To Get On The Agenda.

Our Climate Is Changing. And While The Increase In Extreme Weather We Have Experienced In New York City And Around The World May Or May Not Be The Result Of It, The Risk That It May Be - Given The Devastation It Is Wreaking - Should Be Enough To Compel All Elected Leaders To Take Immediate Action.

If It Wasn't For O'flanagan's Pub On Manhattan's Upper East Side, I Don't Know Where I Would Have Spent My Friday Nights As A Young Man.

The Next Day After I Got Fired, Literally The Next Day, I Started A New Company.

For Sure I Would Prefer Trump Had Not Withdrawn From The Paris Agreement. But The Fight Against Climate Change Is Really Done At The Local Level - Whether It's Cities, Local Governments Or The Private Sector, Corporate And Individual. No Matter What Trump Says, Nobody Is Going To Go Back And Take The Scrubber Out Or Change Back To Polluting. The Damage That Trump Can Do Is If There Are Countries That Are On The Fence About Whether They Want To Address The Issue, This Gives The Naysayers, The Doubters, Those That Don't Want To Do Anything, A Little More Ammunition.

There Is No Business In America That Would Be Prevented From Taking Results Into Account When Making Personnel Decisions.

If You Are Honest With Yourself And If You Want To Like What You See In The Mirror, Is You Have To Say What You Really Believe.

I Think That Most Of The Candidates [for Presidency] Can't Run The Railroad, And I Still Worry That Whoever Gets Elected Will Have Policies Designed For Political Rather Than Practical Reasons.

You Can Bet - A Good Chance Of Hillary [clinton], A Good Chance Of [donald] Trump - But Not 100% In Either Case.

We Haven't Had A World War In A Long Time. We Do Have Mass Movements Of People Out Of Syria And North Africa. But, Fundamentally, If You Take Japan, You're Complaining That The Economy Isn't Booming, They'd Like To Have Slightly Higher Inflation.

The Problem Of Dealing With The Financial Industry Is Being Addressed Today. You Can Measure It With Interest Rates Coming Down. You Can Measure It With The Quantity Of Loans, And That Sort Of Thing. The Problem Is, That Nobody Wants To Take The Loans. Once The Banks Are Willing To Give It, That's Only Half The Problem.

We Will Rebuild, Renew And Remain The Capital Of The Free World.

We All Must Recognize That Homeland Security Funds Should Be Allocated By Threat And No Other Reason.

Don't Think That I'm - I'd- I'm Infallible. Will Always Make Mistakes.

Making Mistakes

Nobody Wants A Job Where They Don't Have Authority To Go Along With The Responsibility. Quite The Contrary. The More Authority You Give People, The Better People You Can Attract, And The Harder They're Going To Work, And The More Loyal They Are Going To Be.

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.

I Make No Secret Of The Fact That I Was Not A Big Hillary Clinton Supporter, But I Thought In The Two-way Race Between Her And Donald Trump, That She Should Have Been The President. But Trump Promised A Lot Of Things. And Now He's Six Months In And Hasn't Passed A Piece Of Legislation Yet. Now, I Personally Have Said We Should Help Him. I Didn't Vote For Him. I Didn't Think He Was The Right Person. But Once We Have An Election And He Gets Elected, Then We Have A Responsibility As Citizens To Help Him.

If Warren Buffett Made His Money From Ordinary Income Rather Than Capital Gains, His Tax Rate Would Be A Lot Higher Than His Secretary's. In Fact A Very Small Percentage Of People In This Country Pay A Big Chunk Of The Taxes.

One's A Dog-eat-dog World, And The Other One's Just The Opposite.

I Know That Many Irish-born New Yorkers Are Caught In The Trap Of Our Federal Immigration Policies. If We Are Going To Continue To Attract The Best And The Brightest - And Ireland Has More Than Its Fair Share - We Need To Inject Some Common Sense Into Our Immigration Laws, And I'm Doing My Best To Make That Case In Washington.

[hillary Clinton] Is Going To Decide War, Peace, And Health, Education, Livelihood For My Kids. I Want The Best Person.

Health Education

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.

[jeb Bush] Could, As I Describe It, Run The Railroad.[john] Kasich Could Run The Railroad. Hillary Clinton Can Run The Railroad. Running The Railroad Is The Most Important Thing. You Have Got 4 Million Employees; You've Got To Make The System Work, And It Doesn't Work Very Well.

We Are The Safest Large City In America, But Any Crime Rate Is Too 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.

People Have No Confidence That Washington, Both Sides Of Aisle, Are Coming Together To Try And Do What's Right For The Economy.

Government Should Not Tell You What To Do Unless There's A Compelling Public Purpose.

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.

If You Look At Who Starts New Businesses, People That Are Innovative And Risk Takers. When You Look At Immigrants, You Really Have To Be An Innovator And A Risk Taker To Leave Everything You Know In The Old Country And Go To A New Country. People That Come Here In America Come Here To Work.

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.

There Is No Accountability Today... No Willingness To Focus On Big Ideas.

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.

Keep In Mind, Mike Bloomberg's Kids And Grandkids Are Breathing That Air Just Like The Coalminers' Families Are Breathing That Air. And The Coalminers Are The Ones That Have The Conflict. They Want Their Jobs, I Understand That. They Need To Be Able To Feed Their Families. They Also Have To Worry About Their Health And The Health Of Their Families.

I Don't Know Why People Carry Guns. Guns Kill People.

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