#ow

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#affordable housing #believe #better #bring #build

The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#best part #center #city #forever #hearts

But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I've been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can explore how difficult it is for people to be together. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#difficult #doing #explore #exploring #extension

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. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#china #closer #costs #eastern #eastern europe

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#among #called #especially #fact #gossip

Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#chad #christine #everyone #howard #i

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#average #garden #gardener #going #her

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. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#better #i #know #make #proud

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