Latest Michael Bloomberg Quotes from Interviews

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• I cannot for the life of me understand why the American market keeps going up. Our economy has some real challenges. The infrastructure's falling apart. We're destroying jobs with technology. We are keeping the best and the brightest from around the world from coming to America to create new jobs and create new businesses. All of those things would give you pause to worry about the future.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Real, Fall, Technology

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• If you look at who starts new businesses, people that are innovative and risk takers. When you look at immigrants, you really have to be an innovator and a risk taker to leave everything you know in the old country and go to a new country. People that come here in America come here to work.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, People, Risk

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I like what I see when I look in the mirror. If I get sentimental, I look and say, "Uh. It's a bad day. They beat up on me," this, that, and the other thing. But ya know? We've spent one billion trying to convince people to not smoke. It's been phenomenally successful. We've probably saved millions of lives. There aren't many people that have done that. So, you know, when I get to heaven, I'm not sure I'm gonna stand for an interview. I'm going right in.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Bad Day, Successful, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• What I'm trying to do is to create excitement. So people looking at the Bloomberg's office building say, "My goodness, what's going on here? There's something different about this company." You want the employees to get psyched. And it's a chance to meet each other. My job is to get people to work together. With free food and no offices, even for Bloomberg, this might be considered one of the world's great corporate headquarters.

  Michael Bloomberg

  People, Office, Working Together

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I make no secret of the fact that I was not a big Hillary Clinton supporter, but I thought in the two-way race between her and Donald Trump, that she should have been the president. But Trump promised a lot of things. And now he's six months in and hasn't passed a piece of legislation yet. Now, I personally have said we should help him. I didn't vote for him. I didn't think he was the right person. But once we have an election and he gets elected, then we have a responsibility as citizens to help him.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Responsibility, Thinking, Secret

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• We need to have more taxes, not less, and we need the taxes we have, certainly, to provide services - for defense and education and health care. We should not cut money here in order to cut taxes.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Cutting, Care, Health Care

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I think fully, that an independent candidate can't win in this country. The Constitution is structured for basically a two-party government, a two-party race.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, Independent, Winning

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2016 and warned of Trump. America has survived for almost 250 years with its imperfect democracy, but, you know, maybe it's a better democracy than elsewhere. And I am sure American democracy will survive.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Democracy, Imperfect, Democratic

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• People vote against their own interests that all the time. But when you do the polling in the U.S., it has gone from less than 50 percent who thought climate change was real to 70-odd percent. And if you listen to the Republicans in Congress, they used to say, "Oh, climate change doesn't exist." Then they switched to "Well, it exists, but it's not man-made," to "Well, I'm going to address the issue." Why? Because when they go home, the local constituent says, "Wait a second. What are you talking about? We just had a flood. We haven't had rain in a long time." They can't get away from it.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Real, Rain, Home

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• The governor of Texas was a real climate change, well, "skeptic" would be a nice way of phrasing it. Still, though, Texas is a leader in renewables. So, what I care about is what politicians are actually doing, not what they are saying.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Real, Nice, Leader

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Other ways of looking at the environmental or climate change stuff is to frame it in the context that it is simultaneously a public health issue. One out of eight premature deaths worldwide happens because of air pollution. The worst power plant in America kills 278 people a year and causes 445 heart attacks. So, when we improve air quality we improve our lives, and at the same time we improve the climate as well. We must see climate policy from this perspective and not as an abstract threat that may threaten our survival in 100 years.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Heart, People, Perspective

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I'd love to have a president who really was out there leading and traveling around the world campaigning for joint climate change action. Even the Chinese government is trying to get people to stop polluting. And I think the federal government level in China is acting more responsibly than the American government.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Thinking, People, Chinese

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• We've continued progress in the six months since Trump got elected, and the good thing about what we're doing is that success begets success. As we bring down greenhouse gases, for example, we've closed half of the coal-fired power plants in the country in recent years. There's more impetus to try to close the other half because you can see that it is working. So, you know, I had hoped that Trump would not do that, and it doesn't make any sense to me, but regardless, it is not as cataclysmic as it could be.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, Progress, Trying

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Fifty percent of the world's population lives in cities. In a couple of decades, 70 percent of the world's population will be living in cities. Cities are where the problem is. Cities are where the solution is, where creativity exists to address the challenges and where they have most impact. This is why, in 2005, the C40 was founded, an organization of cities that address climate change. It started with 18 cities; now it's 91. Cities simply are the key to saving the planet.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Couple, Creativity, Challenges

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• For sure I would prefer Trump had not withdrawn from the Paris Agreement. But the fight against climate change is really done at the local level - whether it's cities, local governments or the private sector, corporate and individual. No matter what Trump says, nobody is going to go back and take the scrubber out or change back to polluting. The damage that Trump can do is if there are countries that are on the fence about whether they want to address the issue, this gives the naysayers, the doubters, those that don't want to do anything, a little more ammunition.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, Fighting, Giving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Keep in mind, Mike Bloomberg's kids and grandkids are breathing that air just like the coalminers' families are breathing that air. And the coalminers are the ones that have the conflict. They want their jobs, I understand that. They need to be able to feed their families. They also have to worry about their health and the health of their families.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Kids, Worry, Mind

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I tend to be reasonably blunt, maybe a little bit too much. But I just- I always respected people that tell the truth. And I've always wanted people to tell me the truth.

  Michael Bloomberg

  People, Telling The Truth, Blunt

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• Don't think that I'm - I'd- I'm infallible. Will always make mistakes.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Mistake, Thinking, Making Mistakes

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I think [Winston] Churchill said it was " [democracy] the worst of all systems except for all the others." And that's probably true. It's never gone easily.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Thinking, Democracy, Gone

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

• I'm worried about the world because there's chaos in the Middle East, and I think the Iranian deal [to lift sanctions] is going to continue the Shia-Sunni battles, the Persian-Arab battles.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Thinking, Battle, World

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

• I'm worried about the world because of nuclear proliferation.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Nuclear, World, Worried

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

• You can buy almost anything anyplace in the world. You can get it delivered in 24 hours. You can pay for it on credit or just by swiping something. So, I don't know that the world is worse off, in that context, than before.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Credit, World, Pay

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

• Look at the streets! The people have smiles on their faces, they're hustling and bustling and going places, they're well-dressed, there's lots of construction going on. It's kind of hard to feel sorry for an economy like this.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Sorry, People, Hustle

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

• We haven't had a world war in a long time. We do have mass movements of people out of Syria and North Africa. But, fundamentally, if you take Japan, you're complaining that the economy isn't booming, they'd like to have slightly higher inflation.

  Michael Bloomberg

  War, Japan, Long

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

• We have reduced poverty in the world by 50% since the year 1970 - the number of people who go to bed hungry, the number of people that have to sleep without a roof over their heads, the number of people that are illiterate.The world is better.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Sleep, Years, Numbers

  Source: asia.nikkei.com