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.

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.

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.

I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.

I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.

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.

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