Quotes By Michael Bloomberg

Progress really is possible.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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?'

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.

What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?

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

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

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.

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.

I'd be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.