If you can’t prove it’s not true then a certain number of people will glom on and say it is true.
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.
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.
The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations.
The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.
We need our president to be successful because our futures are all tied to the success of America, which means America’s government, which means, in essence, the president.
If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.
Organizing around a common interest is a fundamental part of democracy. We should no more try to take away the right of individuals to collectively bargain than we should try to take away the right to a secret ballot.
The public is upset. If they haven’t lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven’t lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something’s wrong, it’s government’s job to fix it, it must be government that’s responsible for causing it.
If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary’s. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.
Last I looked – and I’m not a candidate – but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It’s most states are winners take all.
Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
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.
Even though New York is the safest big city in the nation, there are still far too many illegal guns on our streets. Nearly all of them arrive from out of state – and most are sold by a small group of rogue gun dealers who refuse to obey federal laws.
You can’t sit there and worry about everything.
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.
Five 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.
Millions of Americans have contributed to building a stronger Israel; I’ve been proud to be one of them. Last year, I went to Jerusalem to help dedicate in my father’s name a new MDA medical facility which treats people of all faiths and all nationalities absolutely equally.
One’s a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one’s just the opposite.
New York has been, and will continue to be, a magnet for people from all over the world. This is where the arts, business, research and technology converge to create the world’s foremost urban economy.