We're the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated. - 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.”

I was elected to be independent. I was elected because I owed no political debts. I was elected to do the job, and not to spend my first four years in office campaigning. I've kept that promise -- and that's why we face the future with renewed optimism.

On his controversial initiative "Opportunity NYC": "Now, you might say, 'why should we pay people for doing what they're supposed to do?' It's a fair question -- but think of it this way. Every other anti-poverty program that's been tried has failed to get the national poverty rate below 11 percent. … Why shouldn't we experiment with a program built around the one strategy that has proven time and again to work wonders -- capitalism?"