Quotes from Michael Bloomberg

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.

We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.

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

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

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

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.

I have the best job I could possibly have.

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

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.

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.

In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made.

Progress really is possible.

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.

I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

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

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.

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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