Yahoo Finance 5 Quotes from the Sunday Talk Shows
Presidential candidates weighed in on a potential 2016 bid by Michael Bloomberg and took final jabs at each other a week before the Iowa caucuses. Here are the highlights.
#1: Marco Rubio on Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg
“I don’t spend a lot of time thinking of Mayor Bloomberg.”
– U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) on Fox
#2: Donald Trump on Bloomberg
“Perhaps we’re not friends anymore. He’s wanted to do this for a long time, and he never pulled the trigger.”
–Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on CBS, on Michael Bloomberg contemplating running for president
#3: Jeb Bush on Trump
“Here’s the deal: Donald Trump is not a conservative, and you need a conservative to lead the conservative party into the general election.”
–Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on ABC
#4: Chris Christie on Rubio
“That shows a real immaturity from Sen. Rubio, to be joking as families were freezing in the cold, losing power and some of them losing their loved ones.”
–New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on CNN, discussing Mr. Rubio’s joke about a major winter storm shutting down the federal government
#5: Bernie Sanders on Gun Control
“We have this horrific mass killings, when people walk into a church and start shooting people and a school, these are issues we have to deal with.”
–U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) speaking about gun control on CBS
