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You must first be willing to fail - and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.

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.

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

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

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

We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

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.

I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.

I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It's not even close.

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

One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.

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

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

What has changed is that people have stopped working together.

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

A lot can happen in a week - just read any Bible, .. On the seventh day, Election Day, unlike the Bible, we can't rest.

The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations.

I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.

Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute.

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

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

People have no confidence that Washington, both sides of aisle, are coming together to try and do what's right for the economy.

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.

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

If you are honest with yourself and if you want to like what you see in the mirror, is you have to say what you really believe.

Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work

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

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

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

We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world.

I like the theater, dining and chasing women. Let me put it this way: I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan. It's like a wet dream.

You can't sit there and worry about everything.

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.

Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has achieved.

Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse.

My father worked all the time.

If you don't encounter setbacks in your career, if you don't have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you're not dreaming big enough.

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

I don't know why people carry guns. Guns kill people.

I'm not going to run for president. No way, no how.

Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

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.

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

You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

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

America is the greatest country on Earth - and when people vote with their feet, they come here.

Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

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.

Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.

If you can't prove it's not true then a certain number of people will glom on and say it is true.

Progress really is possible.

We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.

Government is dysfunctional.

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

In New York City, a lot of people think 'the great outdoors' is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.

I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.

You can't depend on polls.

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

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

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

I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.

You're going to see a million people here who have the courage to come and not let terrorists win, and that's exactly what we should all do.

I understand the appeal of a businessman president. But Trump's business plan is a disaster in the making.

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

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.

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.

What we shouldn't do is let people who want to come here make the decision themselves. America should be in control of its own borders.

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.

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.

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

If people are not smoking, they'll probably be drinking more.

America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.

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

In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres.

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

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

I have the best job I could possibly have.

Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.

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

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

If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.

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

Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

In business, when you fail at something, when something doesn't work, you say okay, we've learned that that's not a path to go down.

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure,

Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable.

Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine. We've got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit.

The next day after I got fired, literally the next day, I started a new company.

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

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

What you've got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don't wuss out.

Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.