Judy Sheindlin, best known as TV’s Judge Judy, regularly lures in 20 million viewers to her daytime show, where she solves court disputes with sage advice. Recently, she gave a talk at The Cambridge Union in the UK, where she was asked: Who does she want to be the next president? These were her remarks:

What’s supposed to happen if you lost an election? You’re supposed to spend the next four years finding the greatest candidate to beat the incumbent.

My judgment is: I actually think that Michael Bloomberg would be a perfect presidential candidate. I’ll tell you why.

Those folks on the left who were more centrist before this process began, now they are out-lefting each other with free money, free education. Everybody gets $1,000. Everybody gets free medical care. Everybody gets free college tuition. Everybody gets, everybody gets. And where does all this getting come from? That’s not really fleshed out yet.

If you’d like a person in the White House to be presidential all the time and come to the center, I’d like to see someone who has no skin in the game. And I think that Michael Bloomberg is that person.

He’s a man who has a lot of money, that he made himself, in a very straightforward way. He is an advocate of climate-change awareness. He believes in reasonable gun control. He believes in making certain that the criminal element in society, which impedes the day-to-day life of so many, are treated fairly but swiftly and with a view towards protecting those law-abiding citizens whose lives are negatively impacted by their behavior.

And he was a great mayor of the city of New York for 12 years.

I don’t know if that could happen. But I believe center is where we should be in the United States. I can’t think of anybody who would bring more comfort for the next four years.

It is with some personal and professional risk that I voice political views. In 50 years, I have not done so. These are critical times for civil discourse, and I truly believe that a fractured family cannot flourish.

The loud voices on the right or the left shouldn’t be the voices that control us. We’re a young country, only been in existence for a couple of hundred years. It would be a shame for our Democracy if the loudest voices are controlling the room.