Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
Michael BloombergI don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.
Michael BloombergIn our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.
Michael BloombergFive years have come, and five years have gone, and still we stand together as one. We come back to this place to remember the heartbreaking anniversary - and each person who died here - those known and unknown to us, whose absence is always with us.
Michael BloombergThe main claim to fame, I think, of Bernie Sanders - who I've never met; I'm sure he's a pleasant guy - [is that] he's certainly not stupid.
Michael BloombergOn 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?'
Michael Bloomberg