You can't depend on polls.

I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.

I think it's a sign that the establishment is going to have to change. For too long they never thought about the average person, because the average person is not organized.

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.

One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.

You've got to give people a fair chance of saying what they believe, and then you've got to decide, "Do you believe 'em?"

The press really is not doing its job of holding their [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?