Michael Bloomberg Quotes

I'm going to work with Republicans when they do things I agree with and I'm going to fight Republicans when they're doing things that I think are damaging.

The Republicans are coming - make nice.

President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.

The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.

Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.

Bipartisanship is like marriage. It takes two to make it work. It only takes one to make it a failure. The President has been playing politics with foreign policy.

I do hope that next year Republicans and Democrats will do nothing.

The people who show up at the early primaries are very passionate and not much interested in compromise.

There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser.

You know how it is: when you politicize things, it is not the best ingredient to get things done.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility.

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.

I really don't think there's a lack of good will between members of the parties. I go back a long way with a lot of Republicans, so I don't think it's personal. But there does seem to be a much greater gap in both the philosophy and emphasis on partisan victories as opposed to policy development.

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

I think people are tired of politicians trying to poke each other in the eye.

If someone agrees with you they're a statesman. If someone disagrees with you, they're a politician.

We can not go back to a situation where we are cozy with the separatists.

Campaigns are partisan. Governing should not be partisan.