Quotes By Michael Bloomberg

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.

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.

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.

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.

You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success.

I have the best job I could possibly have.

You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China.

I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.

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

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

You can't sit there and worry about everything.

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.

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.

The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or federal level - it's much more horse-trading than analysis.

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.

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.

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.