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We've Continued Progress In The Six Months Since Trump Got Elected, And The Good Thing About What We're Doing Is That Success Begets Success. As We Bring Down Greenhouse Gases, For Example, We've Closed Half Of The Coal-fired Power Plants In The Country In Recent Years. There's More Impetus To Try To Close The Other Half Because You Can See That It Is Working. So, You Know, I Had Hoped That Trump Would Not Do That, And It Doesn't Make Any Sense To Me, But Regardless, It Is Not As Cataclysmic As It Could Be.

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Michael Bloomberg

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We've Continued Progress In The Six Months Since Trump Got Elected, And The Good Thing About What We're Doing Is That Success Begets Success. As We Bring Down Greenhouse Gases, For Example, We've Closed Half Of The Coal-fired Power Plants In The Country In Recent Years. There's More Impetus To Try To Close The Other Half Because You Can See That It Is Working. So, You Know, I Had Hoped That Trump Would Not Do That, And It Doesn't Make Any Sense To Me, But Regardless, It Is Not As Cataclysmic As It Could Be.

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I Have Two Daughters That Are The Loves Of My Life And I Want To Leave Them A Better World, A Better Country, A Better State And A Better City.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Well, We Have To Provide The World's Best Schools. We Certainly Don't Have Them, But That's Our Objective.

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We Have An Energy Policy - We're Transferring Our Wealth To Overseas To A Bunch Of Countries That Don't Have The Same Values As Us. In Some Cases, They're Using Our Money To Finance Terrorism Against Us.

And Because No Matter Who You Are, If You Believe In Yourself And Your Dream, New York Will Always Be The Place For You.

What You've Got To Do Is Be Honest. Say What You Believe. Give It To Them Straight. Just Don't Wuss Out.

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

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.

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In The Game Of Life, When The Final Buzzer Sounds, The Only Stat You Carry With You Is The Number Of Assists You Made.

Last I Looked - And I'm Not A Candidate - But Last Time I Checked Reading About The Constitution, The Electoral College Has Nothing To Do With Parties, Has Absolutely Nothing To Do With Parties. It's Most States Are Winners Take All.

The One Thing Computers Have Done Is Let Us Make Bigger Mistakes. We Have To Be Careful Not To Depend On Our Machines.

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.

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.

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We Have An Expression In New York City Government - "in God We Trust, But For Everyone Else, Bring Data." It's So Easy To Pick Up A Sound Byte And Say, "oh, Yeah, Yeah, I Believe That," Without Really Thinking.

You Know, Russia Today Is, What, 200 Million People? In Land Mass, It's Probably 50 Times The Size [of Japan], In Natural Resources A Hundred Times The Size! Russia's Not Doing All That Badly. The Public There - Not Everybody - But They Have Things That The West Offered, [that] Were Only Available In The West A Long Time Ago.

I'm Worried About The World Because Of Nuclear Proliferation.

There's A Fascinating Statistic: One Out Of Every Four People In America Has Visited New York Since 9/11. It Is Astounding. Now, I Don't Know How You Count It; It's Some People Coming Multiple Times.

People Use So Much More Health Care When They Live Longer.

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

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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.

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

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I Gave A Speech At The Democratic National Convention In 2016 And Warned Of Trump. America Has Survived For Almost 250 Years With Its Imperfect Democracy, But, You Know, Maybe It's A Better Democracy Than Elsewhere. And I Am Sure American Democracy Will Survive.

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

Even Though New York Is The Safest Big City In The Nation, There Are Still Far Too Many Illegal Guns On Our Streets. Nearly All Of Them Arrive From Out Of State - And Most Are Sold By A Small Group Of Rogue Gun Dealers Who Refuse To Obey Federal Laws.

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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.

Ten Years Have Passed Since A Perfect Blue Sky Morning Turned Into The Blackest Of Nights. Since Then We've Lived In Sunshine And In Shadow, And Although We Can Never Unsee What Happened Here, We Can Also See That Children Who Lost Their Parents Have Grown Into Young Adults, Grandchildren Have Been Born And Good Works And Public Service Have Taken Root To Honor Those We Loved And Lost.

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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.

I Have My Own Army In The Nypd, Which Is The Seventh Biggest Army In The World. I Have My Own State Department, Much To Foggy Bottom's Annoyance. We Have The United Nations In New York, And So We Have An Entree Into The Diplomatic World That Washington Does Not Have.

We Will Go Forward... We Will Never Go Back.

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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Today, You're A Piranha If You Are Seen Having Coffee With Somebody From The Other Party In Many Cases.

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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.

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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.

Many Of America's And New York's Sons And Daughters Are Around The World Fighting For The Freedoms That The Statue Of Liberty Stands For.

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.

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

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.

We're Paying More For The Privilege Of Getting Sick And Dying Early. Once Again, It Makes No Sense. And Once Again, No One In Washington Is Talking About How To Fix It.

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.

In Fact, You See Hillary [clinton] Moving Very Far To The Left. You See All The Republicans Moving Very Far To The Right.

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.

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.

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.

It's No Fun To Protest On An Empty Stomach.

And If I Were The President, I'd Go Out There And I'd Emphasize The Things I Have Done, And I'd Say, 'some Things Haven't Worked, And I'm Sorry About That, But I Keep Trying.' And I'm - And I Think The President Is A Very Viable Candidate, And You're Going To Have A Real Horse Race Here No Matter Who The Republican Nominee Is.

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

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

The Public Wants Elected Officials Who Have Character. The Public Wants Elected Officials Who Are Willing To Stand Up And Say Things, Even If They Don't Agree With Them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Government Caters To Those Screaming The Loudest, Regardless Of What They're Screaming About. In Business, It's Exactly The Opposite! You Invest More In The Most Successful Departments, And Less In Those That Aren't Performing.

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

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.

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.

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.

A Lot Can Happen In A Week - Just Read Any Bible, .. On The Seventh Day, Election Day, Unlike The Bible, We Can't Rest.

We Need To Inject Some Old-fashioned American Values And Common-sense, Practical Thinking Into Our Energy Policy.

I Think That ... None Of [the Candidates In He Third Party] Have The Courage To Do What's Right For The Country. And I Have, Now, Two Grandchildren, Which I Didn't Have Before. I'd Like To Leave Them A Better World.

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

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.

I Have My Own Army In The Nypd, Which Is The Seventh Biggest Army In The World.

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.

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.

We Have Reduced Poverty In The World By 50% Since The Year 1970 - The Number Of People Who Go To Bed Hungry, The Number Of People That Have To Sleep Without A Roof Over Their Heads, The Number Of People That Are Illiterate.the World Is Better.

No Place Epitomizes The American Experience And The American Spirit More Than New York City.

I Tend To Be Reasonably Blunt, Maybe A Little Bit Too Much. But I Just- I Always Respected People That Tell The Truth. And I've Always Wanted People To Tell Me The Truth.

Telling The Truth

We Should Remember It Wasn't So Long Ago That Confidence In New York Was In Short Supply.

What I'm Trying To Do Is To Create Excitement. So People Looking At The Bloomberg's Office Building Say, "my Goodness, What's Going On Here? There's Something Different About This Company." You Want The Employees To Get Psyched. And It's A Chance To Meet Each Other. My Job Is To Get People To Work Together. With Free Food And No Offices, Even For Bloomberg, This Might Be Considered One Of The World's Great Corporate Headquarters.

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You're Going To See A Million People Here Who Have The Courage To Come And Not Let Terrorists Win, And That's Exactly What We Should All Do.

Being An Entrepreneur Isn't Really About Starting A Business. It's A Way Of Looking At The World: Seeing Opportunity Where Others See Obstacles, Taking Risks When Others Take Refuge.

New York Has Been, And Will Continue To Be, A Magnet For People From All Over The World. This Is Where The Arts, Business, Research And Technology Converge To Create The World's Foremost Urban Economy.

I'm Not Going To Talk About Supporting Somebody For A Long Time. I Don't Know Who The Two Party Candidates Are Going To Be.

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.

Most People Won't Have Opportunity To Do Full-time Service, But Those Lucky Enough To Have Monetary Wealth Or Some Spare Time Really Can Make An Enormous Difference. As Someone Who's Now In The Public Sector, And Is Seeing Up-close-and-personal The Real Impact Of What We Do And What We Give, I Can Tell You: Every Dollar And Every Volunteer Help, In More Ways Than You Can Count.

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Nobody's Going To Go Home For A Year And Come Back. Nobody Could Ever Enforce That. Nobody In Their Right Mind Would Ever Try To Do It.

Basically, The Ubr Is A Relic Of An Earlier Vision For Uddi. The Original Vision For Uddi Was As A Standard That Would Help Companies Conduct Business With Each Other In An Automated Fashion. The Idea Was That Companies Could Publish How They Wanted To Interact, And Other Companies Could Find That Information And Use It To Establish A Relationship.

The Politics Of Partisanship And The Resulting Inaction And Excuses Have Paralyzed Decision-making, Primarily At The Federal Level, And The Big Issues Of The Day Are Not Being Addressed, Leaving Our Future In Jeopardy.

Getting The Job Done Has Been The Basis For The Success My Company Has Achieved.

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

We Need Our President To Be Successful Because Our Futures Are All Tied To The Success Of America, Which Means America's Government, Which Means, In Essence, The President.

I Think [winston] Churchill Said It Was " [democracy] The Worst Of All Systems Except For All The Others." And That's Probably True. It's Never Gone Easily.

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

Most Gun Dealers Follow The Law And Run Honest Businesses. But The Statistics Show That 1 Percent Of Dealers Sell More Than Half Of All Illegal Guns. Why Isn't The Federal Government Going After Them? Here's One Reason: Unlike Mayors, Members Of Congress Don't Get A Phone Call In The Middle Of The Night When A Cop Is Shot And Killed. They Don't Deliver The Eulogies.

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.

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.

I'd Be Happy To Provide Advice If Anybody Asked Me No Matter Who The President Is.

We Need To Have More Taxes, Not Less, And We Need The Taxes We Have, Certainly, To Provide Services - For Defense And Education And Health Care. We Should Not Cut Money Here In Order To Cut Taxes.

Fifty Percent Of The World's Population Lives In Cities. In A Couple Of Decades, 70 Percent Of The World's Population Will Be Living In Cities. Cities Are Where The Problem Is. Cities Are Where The Solution Is, Where Creativity Exists To Address The Challenges And Where They Have Most Impact. This Is Why, In 2005, The C40 Was Founded, An Organization Of Cities That Address Climate Change. It Started With 18 Cities; Now It's 91. Cities Simply Are The Key To Saving The Planet.

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.

Someone Once Described The Information Business As Exactly The Opposite Of Sex. When It's Good, It's Still Lousy.

I Think Fully, That An Independent Candidate Can't Win In This Country. The Constitution Is Structured For Basically A Two-party Government, A Two-party Race.

The Cold Harsh Reality Is That We Have To Balance The Budget.

In Science, A Path That Turns Out To Be A Dead End Is Very Useful Because You Don't Devote Resources To Focusing On That; You Go Elsewheres.

Jeb Bush Is Very Good On Immigration, He's Very Good On Education. He's A Smart Guy.

We May Not Always Agree With Every One Of Our Neighbors. That's Life. And It's Part Of Living In Such A Diverse And Dense City. But We Also Recognize That Part Of Being A New Yorker Is Living With Your Neighbors In Mutual Respect And Tolerance. It Was Exactly That Spirit Of Openness And Acceptance That Was Attacked On 9/11, 2001.

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.

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.

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The Truth Of The Matter Is: You Can Create A Great Legacy, And Inspire Others, By Giving It To Philanthropic Organizations.

When I Care About Something, I Care About Something. I Think I Have An Obligation As An American To - And As A Citizen, As - As A Human Being, To Help Others. Smoking Is Going To Kill A Billion People This Century. I've Put Six Hundred Million Dollars From My Own Money Into Trying To Stop The Tobacco Companies From Getting Kids To Smoke And Convincing Adults That It's Not In Their Health.

What Chance Does A Five-foot-seven Billionaire Jew Who's Divorced Really Have Of Becoming President?

I Think One Of The Great Dangers Here Is Going And Categorizing Anybody From One Religion As A Terrorist. That's Not True... That Would Let The Terrorists Win. That's What They Want Us To Do.

Go Walk The Streets Of Beijing. It's Pretty Hard To Argue It Isn't A Modern City. Now, If You Go Outside [of Beijing], In The Rural Areas, That's True. But Rural America, You Can Say The Same Thing, In Appalachia There's An Awful Lot Of Poverty And Lack Of Education.

What The Democrats Have To Understand Is That While We Do Need To Reform Our Regulation And We Do Need More Restrictions, It Is True That It Is Capitalism And Free Enterprise And Companies That Create Jobs And Wealth For Every American.

Stubborn Isn't A Word I Would Use To Describe Myself; Pigheaded Is More Appropriate.

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

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

Fighting Climate Change Isn't Just An Obligation We Owe To Future Generations. It's Also An Opportunity To Improve Public Health - And Drive Economic Growth - In The Here And Now.

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.

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.

You've Got To Give People A Fair Chance Of Saying What They Believe, And Then You've Got To Decide, "do You Believe 'em?"

Buy What's Deliverable, Not What Could Be.

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.

The Russian Economy Is Way Down Because Of The Price Of Oil, And Because The Ussr Was A Big Chunk Of It.

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