Bloomberg On His Third Term

Mayor Bloomberg's overturning of term limits angered voters and nearly cost him this election. But here in his acceptance speech he discusses his third term:

... If you think you’ve seen progress over the last eight years, I’ve got news for you: You ain’t seen nothing yet.

Well, conventional wisdom says historically third terms haven’t been too successful. But we’ve spent the last eight years defying conventional wisdom. If you remember, after 9/11, when the pundits said it would take decades for us to recover, we proved them wrong. When they said crime could only go up, not down, we proved them wrong. When they said nothing could be done to close the ethnic achievement gap in the schools, we proved them wrong. We’ve proven the experts wrong again and again and again and we’re not stopping now.

We’re going to make the next four years the best yet and we’re going to do it with the same independent approach we’ve always taken: making decisions based on the facts, not the politics. Doing the right thing, not the easy thing. And taking the best ideas, no matter where they come from. That’s what being independent is all about.