And like a schoolboy he was forced to ask a questioner to repeat himself at the Q&A because he was "dozing".
– What if you don't like coffee? asks a questioner from the crowd.
BETTMAN: You know what, I don't want to get into a public negotiation, you asked a question … QUESTIONER: What are the facts, Gary?
Asked by a questioner at a town-hall style meeting New Hampshire whether he regretted those votes replied, "We won the cold war".
When asked by a questioner from the audience who among the candidates would keep the commissioner, Ms. Quinn and the billionaire owner of the Gristedes grocery store chain, John A. Catsimatidis, were alone in raising a hand in firm support.
Asked by a questioner about how he personally handled criticism in his career, Jones recounted that he got through those final White House days (when charges were being leveled, for the purposes of provocation, that he was a communist sympathizer) by popping in videos of Nelson Mendela.
During the question-and-answer session, he made a point of asking each questioner's name and talking about where they were from.
When he finished outlining a plan to reform the welfare system, he asked his questioner, a troubled single mother, what she thought of his response.
"What you've got to remember," he told a questioner asking about the family, "is that the queen is head of state, and if the media take an interest in her relations, it's up to them, but her relations don't have any particular responsibility other than supporting her".
When a questioner asked if Mr. Bloomberg might bring the question back to New York, he responded by offering his view of how he thought New Yorkers saw the issue.
