We could and should have acted sooner and acted faster to cut stops. I wish we had and I'm sorry that we didn't.
Michael Bloomberg
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American businessman and politician; 108th Mayor of New York City
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June 27, 2026
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I want you to know they realize that back then, I was wrong. And I'm sorry.
There is one aspect - approach that I delete - deeply regret, the abuse of a police practice called 'Stop-and-frisk.' I defended it, looking back, for too long, because I didn't understand then, the unintended pain it was causing to young…
He sees our poll numbers, and I think it's fair to say he is scared because he knows I have the record and the resources to defeat him.
Somebody said, you know, that he's taller than me, he calls me Little Mike. And the answer is, Donald, where I come from we measure your height from your neck up. I am not afraid of Donald Trump. Donald Trump is ahead of us -- is afraid of…
The data was very clear and very consistent given the strong pull of partisanship and realities of the electoral college system, there's no way an independent can win. That's a risk I refused to run in 2016 and we can't afford to run it…
The President's words matter more than anybody else. And his job, I've always thought, is to be a unifier, not to be the leader of the party, but to be a leader of this country. There are consequences to words.
You have to have people in their lanes. You can't have all these different people with an ear to the president.
It is a disaster. We have spent decades building trust and relationships, and the benefit of that is lots of people around the world, but Americans, we have not had a World War in 70 years.
I criticized Mitch McConnell when he said that about Barack Obama. And I'll criticize anybody -- any Democrat today that says that about Donald Trump.
There's no question about that. The COP21 agreement was designed in -- to favor America because the negotiators knew that it would be very hard, if not impossible, to get through an American Congress.