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Bill de Blasio
American
Politician
Born:
May 8
,
1961
Change
Life
People
Think
Time
You
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My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.
Bill de Blasio
Life
Service
Family
Personal Life
Define
Has-Been
About
Through
Been
Very
Personal
Public
Professional
Public Service
Professional Life
I think you can be smart and directed and focused, without being obnoxious, and get plenty done.
Bill de Blasio
You
Smart
Think
Plenty
Focused
Directed
Obnoxious
Without
Get
Done
Being
My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.
Bill de Blasio
Life
Family
You
Wife
My Life
Say
Inspiration
Name
Sound
Least
Want
Center
Grounding
There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.
Bill de Blasio
You
People
Strong
Listening
Mind
Nothing
Open
Open Mind
Wrong
Perfectly
Concerns
Still
Hear
Listen
Keep
For decades, Big Oil ravaged our environment. They knew what they were peddling was lethal, but they didn't care. They used the classical Big Tobacco playbook of denial, denial, denial, and all the while, they did everything to hook society on their lethal product.
Bill de Blasio
Denial
Care
Big
Society
Our
Everything
Hook
Classical
Environment
Knew
Were
Big Oil
Decades
Did
Oil
While
Tobacco
Product
Used
Lethal
Part of how you grapple with intense opposition is by creating real, organic momentum: by actually doing something for people, and then they rightfully buy into it.
Bill de Blasio
Buy
You
People
Organic
Rightfully
Something
Part
How
Real
Doing
Opposition
Intense
Then
Creating
Momentum
Actually
I think Bloomberg's broad vision of the environment in New York City is something I agree with. I broadly stand with his vision for how to deal with climate change and prepare for future weather events.
Bill de Blasio
Future
Change
Events
Vision
Weather
Think
Broad
City
Something
Environment
New
Deal
How
Climate
Climate Change
His
York
New York
New York City
Stand
Agree
Prepare
I love the MLB app, because I'm a pretty obsessed baseball fan.
Bill de Blasio
Love
Pretty
Obsessed
Because
Fan
App
Baseball
Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. Living up there in 1967 - the Impossible Dream season - that moment was incredibly compelling. I just naturally gravitated to the team. Nineteen seventy-five was arguably the greatest World Series of all time.
Bill de Blasio
Time
World
Impossible
Living
Incredibly
Everyone
Nineteen
Dream
All-Time
Arguably
Knew
Red
Red Sox
Greatest
Up
Just
Sox
Fan
Naturally
Team
Moment
Series
Season
Compelling
World Series
While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.
Bill de Blasio
Life
Family
Cancer
Father
Will
Battling
Has-Been
Emerge
Part
Clear
Soon
Terminal
Private
Been
His
Tragically
Ended
Story
While
Media
Now
My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.
Bill de Blasio
Family
Mother
Parents
Young
Side
Brought
Divorced
Were
Up
Really
Clearly, Mayor Bloomberg did some things right. I think he did a very good job on public health. He did a very good job on environment. I think he was right to achieve mayoral control of education. I don't think he then applied it the right way.
Bill de Blasio
Education
Health
Good
Achieve
Good Job
Job
Control
Think
Way
Right Way
Some
Some Things
He
Environment
Clearly
Very
Did
Mayor
Public
Then
Public Health
Right
Things
Applied
I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship.
Bill de Blasio
Positive
Relationship
Unions
Respectful
Had
Always
Very
Labor
Municipal
I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.
Bill de Blasio
Future
Good
Think
Everyone
Secure
Economic
Economic Future
Policy
Families
Public
Public Policy
Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.
Bill de Blasio
Service
School
College
Else
Back
High
Would
Would-Be
High School
High School And College
Could
Involved
Going
Literally
Anything
Anything Else
Public
Public Service
Believed
This country has wasted too many years pretending it had the luxury of debating climate change.
Bill de Blasio
Change
Luxury
Pretending
Country
Too
Had
Climate
Climate Change
Years
Debating
Many
Wasted
Preparing for climate change has to be a national priority backed by tens of billions in federal investment. Lives are on the line.
Bill de Blasio
Change
National
Backed
Federal
Investment
Tens
Climate
Priority
Climate Change
Line
Billions
Preparing
Lives
When a party loses a national election to someone such as President Trump, it's time to rethink everything.
Bill de Blasio
Time
Election
Party
National
President
Everything
President Trump
Someone
Rethink
Loses
Trump
We need an inspiring vision of equality that resonates in the hearts, minds, and souls of all Americans.
Bill de Blasio
Equality
Vision
Resonates
Minds
All Americans
Inspiring
Souls
Hearts
American
Need
I know the ugly history of corporate welfare, and that's not New York City's future.
Bill de Blasio
Future
History
Welfare
Ugly
Corporate
City
New
Know
York
New York
In a lot of ways, New York isn't the city I moved to back in 1979. I'm old enough to separate my nostalgia for those days from the reality of how dangerous and uncertain they could be.
Bill de Blasio
Reality
Dangerous
Old
Enough
Back
Ways
Those
City
Uncertain
Could
New
Days
How
Lot
York
Moved
New York
Nostalgia
Old Enough
Separate
I came up in a time where the assumption was, in the '60s and '70s, where the federal government was a great agent of progressive social change, it was the intervener in the best sense, and it would come and address injustice forthrightly.
Bill de Blasio
Government
Time
Best
Great
Injustice
Change
Sense
Assumption
Progressive
Address
Would
Federal
Federal Government
Come
Came
Up
Where
Social
Social Change
Agent
I want to ensure that the Democratic Party moves in a more progressive direction, substantively and message-wise. And goes out and reaches people all over this country.
Bill de Blasio
People
Country
Party
Progressive
Ensure
Out
Direction
More
Over
Democratic
Democratic Party
Goes
Moves
Want
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