Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
10/7/2023 1:27pm
... on behalf of everybody at the 95th street y -- mr. clinton: that is because you take care of all of the stuff that requires real money. he gives a lot of that money away. [applause] ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
10/7/2023 1:25pm
... president clinton, you look back on your service to our country. what are you most proud of having achieved? mr. clinton: can i add one thing to what hillary said? [laughter] david: sure. mr. clinton: one thing i like ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
10/7/2023 1:20pm
... mr. clinton: he called me as soon as it was over and said, bill, we got him. i said, who? [laughter] he knew how hard i tried to get him when i was president and ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
10/7/2023 1:17pm
... you turned that down initially. why? mr. clinton: she turns everything down. she turned me down three times when i asked her to marry me. [laughter] her default answer is no. sec. clinton: there is some truth to that. but eventually, i do say yes to ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
10/7/2023 1:14pm
... surplus. a surplus is when you had more money than you spend. [applause] at one point, it was thought maybe we would run out of having federal treasury bills because we would not have any debt. any ideas about how we can get back to that situation? [laughter] mr. clinton: first, i had a big ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
10/7/2023 1:13pm
... he was a world war ii vet. he loved that. when i brought bill home the first time, it was not so much that he was from arkansas, it was that he was a democrat. [laughter] mr. clinton: hillary came from ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
10/7/2023 1:07pm
... david: president clinton, if you were to say we should change the way presidents are elected, you were elected twice and are probably happy with the method, but do you think direct election, the popular vote, would be preferable to the electoral college? mr. clinton: i do. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
10/7/2023 1:06pm
... bipartisan legislation. what causes this? any solution in the near term? mr. clinton: if i say it, you will say i am being a partisan democrat, but i will say it anyway. it is because ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
10/7/2023 1:04pm
... and what could be done to improve it? mr. clinton: well, i think it is difficult. and i think it will get harder if we ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
10/7/2023 1:02pm
... mr. clinton: i do not expect it to be resolved in the near term. unless putin has a change of heart or the u.s. and others walk away from ukraine and they cannot get enough arms and ammunition to continue. they have been amazing. they have fought and fought and ...
Bloomberg: Bloomberg Surveillance
9/27/2023 12:47pm
... president of the united states mr. clinton of arkansas. the 92nd street y with david rubenstein and secretary clinton, hillary clinton, bill and hillary clinton on bloomberg tonight together at 9 p.m. you think you would show up and ...
Bloomberg: Bloomberg Markets Americas
11/17/2020 7:00pm
... former president clinton says it is clear president biden will work to strengthen ties with nato and the world health organization. mr. clinton ...
Bloomberg: Bloomberg Surveillance
8/19/2020 11:12am
... last night, testimonials from the party's old guard such as bill clinton. mr. clinton: if you want a president who defines the job as spending hours a day watching tv and slamming people on social media, he's your man. ...
Bloomberg: Bloomberg Markets Balance of Power
10/14/2019 4:44pm
... and they have certainly made for some memorable exchanges. you are not worth being on the same platform. i tell you, mr. clinton, don't try to escape it. that will becies gone when i get there. ...
Bloomberg: Bloomberg Surveillance
11/28/2018 11:34am
... the long-term don't benefit the american economy or american worker. tom: your district elected donald trump, the swing from mr. clinton was. radical within your fifth ...
Bloomberg: Bloomberg Best
9/30/2018 7:36pm
... of our term, we will be very close to putting an end to extreme poverty. mr. clinton: what is your take on where we are in the world today? how can we get other people who ...
Bloomberg: Bloomberg Best
9/30/2018 7:34pm
... all the people of south africa. mr. clinton: it is one thing to say you are for peace and inclusion and quite another thing to achieve it when there is an unlimited amount of money ...
Bloomberg: Bloomberg Best
9/30/2018 7:33pm
... former u.s. president bill clinton moderated, with president ivan duque of colombia, prime minister of norway erna solberg, and south africa's president cyril ramaphosa. mr. clinton: ok, we all live in an interdependent world. we want to work together. ...
Bloomberg: Bloomberg Best
9/30/2018 8:32am
... cabinet that is 50% men and women, 50% men, 50% women. and i also feel very proud that we are mobilizing investment to technology, to agricultural development. and my goal is that by the end of the term, we will be very close to putting an end to extreme poverty. mr. clinton: what is your take ...
Bloomberg: Bloomberg Best
9/30/2018 8:32am
... all the people of south africa. mr. clinton: it is one thing to say you are for peace and inclusion and quite another thing to achieve it when there is an unlimited amount of money coming from narco trafficking to do everything possible to undermine the future you want to build. pres. duque: i ...
Bloomberg: Bloomberg Best
9/30/2018 8:30am
... colombia, prime minister of norway erna solberg, and south african president cyril ramaphosa. mr. clinton: ok, we all live in an interdependent world. ...
Bloomberg: Bloomberg Daybreak Australia
4/18/2018 10:10pm
... careful that the president he is meeting is not mr. clinton or mr. bush, or mr. obama. some of the presidents have leadersd north korean ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
3/30/2018 2:56am
... and the next day when you leave office, you have no power. what was the transition like? [laughter] mr. clinton: nobody plays a song when you walk in a room anymore. [laughter] david: right. mr. clinton: i was lost for the first three weeks after i left office. i kept waiting for the music you ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
3/30/2018 2:54am
... back room? what do you actually say to each other when former presidents are getting together? do you actually tell secrets that you never tell anybody else? mr. bush: generally we say, when is this program going to start and when is it going to end? [laughter] mr. clinton: well -- [laughter] mr. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
3/30/2018 2:31am
... david: did he get a finder's fee or anything from you? yeah, i am still paying that finder's fee. [laughter] mr. clinton: no one plays a song when you walk into the room anymore. [laughter] mr. bush: laura didn't bring the coffee. [laughter] would you fix your tie, please? david: well, people ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 4:00am
... president bush. i want to thank you for your service to our country, and thank you for the leadership you have given to so many people, and thank you what you are doing in your post presidency. thank you very much. [applause] mr. clinton: thank you all. [applause] the dow now sitting at 20000. $861 ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:57am
... with is he wanted to get all of our water and not pay very much money for it. pres. bush: that's right. [laughter] mr. clinton: i would have swapped it out for texas oil. i told him barrel for barrel. [laughter] david: president clinton, ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:57am
... realize everybody has got a story. all the things i learned as a kid. mr. bush: the only thing you disagreed with my platform was that texas ought to take arkansas. [laughter] mr. clinton: what i disagreed ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:56am
... mr. clinton: i also think you have to begin with the end in mind. that is, you have to say -- yeah, you have to win the election, but why in the heck are you running? that is the other thing i noticed about him. when he ran for governor against ann richards, he did not say ann richards is a klutz, ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:53am
... most people focus their attention on these libraries on the coast and stuff like that. it is a valuable resource for people in what we called 'the heartland.' mr. clinton: i also think, you just talk to these young people, ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:50am
... the number of people he could get. david: what do you think it takes for someone that wants to be president? i want to be like you. i want to be like you. mr. bush: humility. i think it is really important to know what you don't know and listen to people that do know what you don't know. mr. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:49am
... mr. clinton: and i said, and as we know, starting with me, we democrats are not as good at bumper stickers. and it was brilliant. and i thought, they are going to underestimate this guy. i also saw him beat ann richard who had been a friend of mine ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:48am
... you have to keep at it all the time. and at first i thought, i don't want to do this, but i did. i am a workaholic and i did not think i could be a gifted painter. [laughter] mr. clinton: but i admired him for doing that. and you know, i think he would ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:47am
... all right. president clinton, since you left the presidency, you have changed your diet and other things. what have you spent the most time on now that gives you the most pleasure now? is at the clinton global initiative? mr. clinton: yeah, building my ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:44am
... that is kind of intimidating for the young man, i assume. mr. clinton: at the time i certainly hoped so. [laughter] [applause] david: right. mr. clinton: i liked chelsea's boyfriends. you know, and she never went out ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:43am
... the president. it is a challenge anytime to have teenage daughters. and thanks to laura's guidance and love, our little girls, our family unit strengthened. i think that is a great accomplishment. david: ok. mr. clinton: me, too. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:41am
... what would you say in your eight years, you are most proud of having got done? mr. clinton: i was most proud when i left office, we had the broadest period of shared prosperity in 50 years. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:39am
... your eight years you're most proud of having got done? mr. clinton: we had the broadest period of shared prosperity in 50 years. david: what would you say in your eight years? mr. bush: well, my daughters loved me. [laughter] david: all right. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:38am
... [laughter] david: money isn't everything. but yes. [laughter] mr. clinton: if we could say one serious thing, there are a lot of really big questions floating out there. carlos slim, the mexican ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:37am
... pursue something else? mr. clinton: in a heartbeat. [applause] david: the highest calling of mankind i have often thought was private equity. [laughter] david: but you would saving president of the united states is better than private equity? [laughter] mr. clinton: i don't know. mr. bush: we make ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:37am
... advocates. william howard taft became chief justice. herbert hoover came out of retirement and wrote the civil service act. david: right. mr. clinton: they did a lot of good things. and i feel, you know, that ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:36am
... presidency is it is often defined by the unexpected, which makes the job doubly interesting. mr. clinton: it is a very interesting. a lot of more successful former presidents served one term. john quincy adams went back to congress for 16 years, one of our most important anti-slavery ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:35am
... out as long as i can. david: so, if you could run for president of the united states, or former president of the united states, what would you recommend? mr. clinton: first of all, i think it depends on how you keep score. but i think you have to live a long time as a former president ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:35am
... could live to be a grandfather. unlike him who comes from great genes, i am now the oldest person in my family for three generations, man or woman. david: wow. mr. clinton: and so i thought it was, i said i think i would like to hang around. i am kind of having a good time being alive. [laughter] ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:35am
... mr. bush: no, i still ride. david: you are not worried about breaking things? mr. bush: no. [laughter] mr. clinton: your dad was jumping out of planes at 85 or 90. david: you exercise and of a lost a lot of weight since you left the presidency. you have gone on a vegan diet. isn't that hard to do? ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:33am
... david: so what about camp david? most people have never been to camp david. so tell us, what is it like it camp david? it is a great place to have a retreat and relax, or is it really overrated? mr. clinton: no, i liked it. it is a great place. particularly if you -- i loved _ ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:32am
... mr. clinton: i think if you have lived an informal life, even though i had spent almost a dozen years in the governor's mansion in arkansas, it is very different. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:29am
... mr. clinton: you have to live a long time as a former president to have as many impacts as you have as president. mr. bush: the decisions you make have got a monumental effect on a lot of people. it was exciting to be in that kind of environment. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:28am
... mr. clinton: but it made me feel good because my mother had a pretty tough life. she was widowed three times. she had a pretty tough life. and she got up at 5:00 every morning and got herself ready and was at work by 7:00 and did ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:27am
... president, and he said thank you, mr. president. david: that must have been something. what was it like when your mother walked in the oval office for the first time and you were president of the united states? mr. clinton: she started laughing out loud. [laughter] mr. clinton: it was so ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:26am
... if you have been president at 56 or 66, do you think it would have been different, or did you think you would have had less energy at your age? mr. clinton: i think i would have been better in some ways if i had been older. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:24am
... when did it first hit you the first day, first week, the first month? mr. clinton: harry truman said what surprised me, you spend so much time trying to talk people to do things you should not have had to ask them to do in the first place. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:22am
... did you think she was going to stay down in arkansas and marry you? because you know, arkansas was not considered, in her world, the place that was the center of the universe exactly. [laughter] mr. clinton: i did not, no. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:21am
... he had an 85% approval rating, and 99% name recognition. mr. bush: that is called suicide. [laughter] mr. clinton: i was zero and he beat me 51-48. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:21am
... mr. clinton: no. i got a break, in a way. i think about in the house, the democrats did well in 1974 because president nixon resigned. but i ran against a congressman who was one of his father's best friends. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:21am
... mr. clinton: it was so ridiculous that it could ever happen. david: both of you ran for congress and both lost. so you have that in common. but after you lost the first time, you were trying to beat an incumbent congressman and you lost. did you say, i am out of politics? what made you say -- _ ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:19am
... and in walks my dad and i said, welcome, mr. president. and he said, thank you mr. president. david: what was it like when your mother walked in the oval office for the first time and you are president of the united states? mr. clinton: she started laughing out loud. [laughter] ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:18am
... i thought by not being reelected you were driven so much harder to work to be president later on. mr. clinton: i really appreciate it. i don't think i ever adequately thanked you for doing that. [laughter] david: at the time you weren't that happy about it. president bush, i think i am responsible ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:16am
... mr. clinton: i also lost two elections along the way which keeps you humble. first of all, i think that stuff is overrated. i think i got elected because i -- basically we were the last generation that was born without a television. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:15am
... ability to respect and like each other. therefore, if you disagree with someone, it does not mean you don't like him. mr. clinton: also i recognized that he was 44 days older than me. [laughter] so i called him on his birthday ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:12am
... other. he called you names, you called him names. how did you come together? mr. clinton: i think it helped that we had some contact before. you know, i represented the democratic governors when he decided to embrace these national education goals and he ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:09am
... him names. how did you come together? mr. clinton: he deserves a lot of credit because if he had not asked us to do this the tsunami work together, i am not sure the relationship would have ever flowered the way it did. mr. bush: i think it starts with being bill clinton being a ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:08am
... give shorter answers. [laughter] mr. clinton: no, it is unusual with us because when i left ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:08am
... do you tell secrets that you never tell anyone else? [laughter] mr. bush: generally we say, when is this program going to start and when is it going to end? [laughter] mr. clinton: he'll say to me, ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:06am
... mr. bush: yes. it depends on what you are trying to do. mr. clinton: i think it depends. first of all, you have to realize what you don't have and what you do. it is really true that i loved the job and i loved all the responsibility. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:04am
... mr. clinton: nobody plays a song when you walk in the room anymore. [laughter] mr. clinton: i was lost for the first three weeks after i left office. i would keep waiting for the music, you know. [laughter] mr. clinton: actually, it is ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:03am
... family totem pole. you're the least important person in the family. david: it is true. mr. clinton: we qualify. david: we will talk about your presidencies. you are now both former presidents. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:03am
... mr. bush: i am called jefe. [laughter] david: what do your grandchildren call you? mr. clinton: i am more humble, i am called pop pop. [laughter] mr. clinton: you are the one that told me that once you become a grandparent, you are immediately at the bottom of the ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
1/1/2018 3:03am
... mr. bush: can your granddaughter sing 'happy birthday' in mandarin? [laughter] mr. bush: mine can. mr. clinton: no, but she can sing in spanish. [laughter] [applause] david: you both have grandchildren. what do your grandchildren call you? ...
Bloomberg: Whatd You Miss
12/27/2017 9:52pm
... 44 days older than me. [laughter] mr. clinton: i called him on his birthday and said, i am calling you on bended knee, because this begins my 44 days of respect for my elders. [laughter] mr. bush: when i was president i ...
Bloomberg: Whatd You Miss
12/27/2017 9:52pm
... we had friends in common. there was a natural ability to respect and like each other. therefore, if you disagree with someone, does not mean you do not like them. mr. clinton: i recognized he was ...
Bloomberg: Whatd You Miss
12/27/2017 9:49pm
... how did you manage to develop a close relationship? wasn't that difficult or awkward at times? you are called him names, he called you names. mr. clinton: i think it helped we had some contact before -- i _ ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 1:00am
... in your post presidency. thank you very much. mr. clinton: thank you all. [applause] it is 9:00 a.m. in singapore, noon in sydney. core inflation in japan rose more than expected in november at 0.9% compared to a forecast 0.8% and the minutes of the ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 0:57am
... mr. clinton: i would have swapped it out for texas oil. i told him. barrel for barrel. [laughter] david: president clinton, president bush. i want to thank you for your service to our country, and thank you for the leadership you have given to so many people, and thank you what you are doing ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 0:57am
... all the things i learned. mr. bush: the only thing you disagreed with in my platform was that texas ought to take arkansas. [laughter] mr. clinton: what i disagreed with is he wanted to get all of our water and not pay very much money for it. [laughter] ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 0:56am
... most important hard work, intelligence, optimism, luck? what do you think it takes for someone that wants to be like you? mr. bush: humility. i think it is really important to know what you don't know and listen to people that do know what you don't know. mr. clinton: i also think you ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 0:54am
... dad's and lbj's made a lot of sense. most people focus their attention on these libraries on the coast. he said this is a valuable resource for people in what we called 'the heartland.' mr. clinton: i also think, you talk to these young people here, they basically think it is a nice thing to go to ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 0:50am
... david: what do you think it takes for someone that wants to be president? i want to be like you, i want to be like you. mr. bush: humility. i think it is really important to know what you don't know and listen to people that do know what you don't know. mr. clinton: if you want to be president, ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 0:50am
... [laughter] mr. clinton: and i said, and as we know, it started with me, we democrats are not as good at bumper stickers. and it was brilliant. and i thought, they are going to underestimate this guy. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 0:49am
... [applause] mr. clinton: wait, he made me look like a genius, because when the president of -- when the presidential race in 1999 started, i turned on the tv one night at the white house, and i ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 0:49am
... mr. clinton: but i admired him for doing that. and you know, i think he would tell you the best thing that can happen to you in politics is to be consistently underestimated. mr. bush: i was pretty good at that. [laughter] ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 0:47am
... david: all right. president clinton, since you left the presidency, you have changed your diet and other things. what have you spent the most time on now they get to the most the most pleasure now? -- that gives you is at the clinton global initiative? mr. clinton: yeah, building my foundation and ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 0:44am
... david: right. mr. clinton: i liked chelsea's boyfriends. and she never went out with more than one boy at a time. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 0:44am
... on a date, and a father is green -- is greeting the young man, and you are president of the united states? that is kind of intimidating for the young man i assume. mr. clinton: at the time i certainly hoped so. [laughter] ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 0:43am
... love, our family unit strengthened. i think that is a great accomplishment. mr. clinton: me, too. this is what i think a lot of people don't believe about people like us. if you take it seriously, your ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 0:42am
... years you are most proud of having done? mr. clinton: i was most proud when i left office, we had the broadest period of shared prosperity in 50 years. that is where the bottom 20% of income in percentage terms increased more than the top 20%, and nobody was mad at anyone else over it. it was ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 0:39am
... nobody knows if he is right or not. but that means that it is not going to be boring. david: what would you say in your eight years you're most proud of getting done? mr. clinton: we had the broadest period of shared prosperity in 50 years. ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 0:38am
... mr. clinton: if we could say one serious thing, there are a lot of really big questions floating out there. a mexican multibillionaire is a really smart guy, gave a speech during the campaign. the campaign being what it was, obviously nobody was interested in asking about it, but he said, ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 0:38am
... than equity? mr. clinton: i don't know. -- mr. bush: i don't know. we make $200000 a year in pension. what do you make? [laughter] david: money isn't everything. [laughter] ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 0:38am
... people, and would you say it is worth the aggravation factor to become president, or would you recommend they pursue something else? mr. clinton: in a heartbeat. mr. bush: same. [applause] david: the highest calling of mankind i always thought was private equity. but you would say that -- ...
Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show Peer to Peer Conversations
12/26/2017 0:37am
... retirement and wrote the civil service act. david: right. mr. clinton: they did a lot of good things. and i feel, you know, that george and i have been blessed because we were reasonably young. ...
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12/26/2017 0:37am
... presidency is that it is often defined by the unexpected, which makes the job doubly interesting. mr. clinton: it is a very interesting. a lot of more successful former presidents are one term. john quincy adams went back to congress for 16 years, one of our most important anti-slavery advocates. ...
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12/26/2017 0:36am
... recommend? mr. clinton: first of all, i think it depends on how you keep score. but i think you have to live a long time as a former president to have the impact on as many people as you can as president. ...
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12/26/2017 0:36am
... would like to hang around. i'm having a good time being alive. [laughter] mr. clinton: it will be over soon enough. i figure i will stretch it out as long as i can. david: so, if you could run for president of the united states, or former president of the united states, what would you ...
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12/26/2017 0:36am
... i thought i would cut my chances. i literally wanted to live to be a grandfather. unlike him, who comes from great genes, i am now the oldest person in my family for three generations, man or woman. david: wow. mr. clinton: i said i think i ...
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12/26/2017 0:35am
... weight since you left the presidency. you have gone on a vegan diet. isn't that hard to do? mr. bush: less burgers. [laughter] mr. clinton: not when you have quadruple heart bypass and you want to live to be a grandfather. i did not give it a second thought. i realized i was highly prone to ...
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12/26/2017 0:35am
... david: you don't worry about breaking things? mr. bush: no. [laughter] mr. clinton: your dad was jumping out of planes at 85. david: your exercise is you play golf, and you have lost a lot of ...
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12/26/2017 0:34am
... david: what about camp david? most people have never been to camp david. tell us, what is it like? it is a great place to have a retreat and relax, or is it really overrated? mr. clinton: no, i liked it. it is a great place. ...
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12/26/2017 0:32am
... or do you really enjoy it? you have all these servants, you can go to camp david when you want. it is a pleasure to live there, or not so much? mr. clinton: i think if you have lived an informal life, even though i had spent almost a dozen years in the governor's ...
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12/26/2017 0:29am
... recommend? mr. clinton: you have to live a long time as a former president to have any impact on as many people as president. mr. bush: the decisions you make have got a monumental effect on a lot of people. ...