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“I firmly believe that when and if Amazon and or Apple adopts bitcoin as a payment structure the dam will essentially break because at that point you're talking about a very high volume of transactions being able to use bitcoin.”
“Americans are our greatest national resource and we need to invest in them through infrastructure, education, and a competitive tax system that rewards initiative and innovation while punishing irresponsible and destructive behavior.”
“There's a lot of people that will take the path of least resistance not to do something if a leader that they look up to isn't doing, or isn't advocating for it.”
“Listen, you never can do anything innovative, you can never do anything special if you always find a way to doubt yourself out of it.”
“We're working on making sure that our incentives are in place and that our legislation promotes crypto and blockchain and is forward-thinking. We want to make sure that we're creating as much of an equity framework from an educational perspective as we possibly can.”
“Miami for many decades has been an intellectual talent exporter. I have many, many friends who grew up, didn't go to school here, didn't come back.”
“In an effort to dispel myths around coronavirus, I am posting daily video diaries that show the progression of my infection. My hope is that these videos can serve as a source of comfort to people who think this virus is nothing less than apocalyptic.”
“When you get elected by 86% and you'd been in government as long as I had been, there was a sense I had a pretty good handle on things.”
“In public service, not everybody's always going to agree.”
“We have attracted major exchanges like Blockchain.com and Etoro to have headquarters in Miami.”
“As a mayor, I've learned that people look to their elected leaders for practical solutions, not partisan ones. They expect results, not political treatises.”
“Use technology to make everything run better.”
“Don't tax more than you have to.”
“The coronavirus has paralyzed the world in a way most of us have never seen in our lifetime. It's chilling.”
“Miami was always traditionally known as America's gateway to Latin America.”
“I educated myself and came back to Miami after law school, got married, and started a business.”
“We want to be one of the most crypto-forward and technological cities in the country. So we're looking at... creating a regulatory framework that makes us the easiest place in the United States to do business if you're doing it in cryptocurrencies.”
“We are a country of laws, and we implement laws for public safety all the time: our seatbelt laws, our stop sign laws, our red light laws. In the absence of those laws, you have lawlessness. You have disorder. You really can't have a functional city.”
“Every time I would tweet something about crypto it would go viral.”
“While I don't claim to be an expert, I know this: Americans want a government that serves them, not any elite or clique.”