Top 100 Rudy Giuliani Quotes
#1. Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you.
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#2. I was the person, I think, who first said the evening of September 11 that we shouldn't hold this against the Arab community, the Muslim community. We should focus on the individuals and that groups that were involved and not participate in group blame.
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#3. It's part of the Constitution. People have the right to bear arms. Then the restrictions of it have to be reasonable and sensible. You can't just remove that right. You've got to regulate, consistent with the Second Amendment.
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#4. I don't think anyone has campaigned much more than I have for Republican candidates, going back to 1998. I mean, I've been in 45 states on behalf of 200 candidates - all Republicans.
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#5. I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.
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#6. I lowered taxes in New York. I reduced the size of government in New York. I took a $2.4 billion deficit and turned it into a $3.2 billion surplus. And I reduced taxes over 23 times or 23 times.
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#7. In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.
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#8. The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black.
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#9. Didn't vet Bernard Kerik sufficiently for DHS recommendation.
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#10. The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified.
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#11. With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.
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#12. More trade with Qatar & emirates is good against terrorism.
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#13. If somebody's going to earn citizenship, with whatever other hurdles are put in the way, at the end of the road they should be able to speak English, they should be able to read English, they should have some knowledge of American history,
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#14. America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.
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#15. There can be people who feel one way about gay rights, another way about gay rights. There can be people who have different views on abortion. But we respect each other. I think we learn from each other. And we understand that ultimately we have the same values.
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#16. Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honorable title of citizen of New York, and citizen of the United States.
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#17. The most important lesson my dad taught me was how to manage fear. Early on, he taught me that in a time of emergency, you've got to become deliberately calm.
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#18. I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers.
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#19. Bonuses balance my budget in New York City. The bigger the bonuses on Wall Street, the more money I had to spend on poor people. The New York City budget is determined greatly by the bonuses given on Wall Street.
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#20. You have to be willing - you have strong ideas, you have strong views, but you have to be willing also to look at experience.
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#21. There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.
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#22. And if you have a law that isn't working, and you have thousands and thousands and millions of people, then the terrorists hide among them. And we have to have a law that makes sense.
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#23. The rule is, you can protest all you want. Make all the noise you want. Carry all the signs you want. The minute you throw a rock, you get arrested. The minute you break a window, you get arrested. The minute you break into a store, you get arrested.
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#24. I think the world is much better off without Saddam Hussein than with him.
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#25. Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
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#26. Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.
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#27. I was pretty successful before Sept. 11 and fully expected that when I left being mayor I would be very successful.
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#28. I think abortion is something that, as a personal matter, I would advise somebody against.
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#29. I lived through crises. September 11 is obviously the biggest one that I've lived through.
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#30. The thoughts I express, whether clearly or ambiguously, are my own and they are my individual responsibility.
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#31. I have known Donald Trump for almost 30 years. And he has created and accomplished great things. But beyond that, this is a man with a big heart.
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#32. Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it.
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#33. America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.
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#34. The most visible symbol in New York is the spirit of a free people.
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#35. The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans.
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#36. If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists.
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#37. You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used to from a president.
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#38. I think that taxes have to exist. They should exist at the lowest possible level, and to the extent that we can, we shouldn't invent more. Maybe that's my experience being mayor of New York City, where we had so many taxes.
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#39. I was very serious about being a priest, twice in my life. Almost joined the Montfort Seminary after I graduated from high school. Almost went back in the seminary during college.
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#40. What did Sept. 11 do? It took me from 60-70 percent name recognition as mayor of New York to about 90 percent. Of course it had an impact. But it's not the only reason I was successful.
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#41. You believe that you can win the nomination of your party, and then you believe that you're the strongest candidate to win the election for your party.
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#42. Republicans spend too much time on defense. We have to be on offense. We have to point out the truth. President Obama stole seven hundred million dollars from Medicare. Republicans want to preserve Medicare. Obamacare robs from Medicare.
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#43. I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.
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#44. Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.
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#45. In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.
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#46. I am a free market Republican. I am against subsidies, in most cases.
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#47. The Republican Party would be well advised to get the heck out of people's bedrooms.
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#48. Compassion doesn't weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.
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#49. He changed his position on virtually everything. I'm a moderate Republican, that's what I am, so I'd be inclined to support someone like Mitt Romney. But all those changes give me pause.
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#50. You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've always tried to be honest when communicating with people.
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#51. As mayor, I used to always feel the important thing is that people respect me, not love me - but it is really much nicer when they love you, too. I'm going to try to keep it that way.
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#52. No time limit in Iraq; stay until we achieve stability.
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#53. I don't feel like I'm running against them, I feel like I'm running to try to show the American people what I can do and what I can accomplish.
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#55. It wouldn't quite be fair to say September 11, like, made my career.
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#56. If we take back the labor unions, the legitimate businesses, eventually they become just another street gang. Spiritually, psychologically, they've always been just a street gang.
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#57. There is no more time for us left to revive our great country. No more time to repeat our mistakes of the past. Washington needs a complete turnaround, and Donald Trump is the agent of change, and he will be the leader of the change we need.
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#58. We don't have real control over death. You could die of a heart attack, a building could fall on you, you could be in an accident, you could have a fatal disease. So, how should you conduct your life? You just go ahead and live, taking reasonable precautions - like handling the mail more carefully.
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#59. No magic formula can completely prepare us for crises in life. However, each choice we make now will impact how we handle those crises in the future. Make your choice count. Dedicate time each day to developing your character. If you do, courage will be there when you need it most.
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#60. Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.
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#61. You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.
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#62. It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.
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#63. I'm probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world.
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#64. I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there's only so much somebody else can tell you about it, and they impose their own distortions on the description. You need to see it yourself.
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#65. Putting pressure on grand juries to indict in my view is un-American. A grand jury should be allowed to be fair and impartial. They shouldn't have people yelling and screaming.
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#66. The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life.
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#67. Our safety requires a long-term military presence in the Middle East because that's where the plans to attack us are emanating.
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#68. The best way to contain China and make it the peaceful rise of China is for us to have an enormously robust navy that is the greatest navy in the world, that can patrol two oceans, that can fight two or three wars, and China will not challenge us because the Chinese are practical.
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#69. In 2012 President Obama didn't go anywhere near African-American communities. Why? Because unemployment was so high there, he didn't want to address it.
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#70. You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent.
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#71. We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.
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#72. Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people.
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#73. The worst situation with radiation escaping is if you are downwind from it. You could virtually be on one side and not affected by the radiation. If you're on the other side and you're downwind from it, you are going to be affected.
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#74. When I became mayor of New York City, I had a $2.4 billion deficit. And everybody wanted me to raise taxes. I said, 'If I raise taxes, I'll drive people out of New York City, and then I'll be raising taxes again.' So what I did was I cut expenses by 15 percent.
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#75. In an emergency, you rarely get one consistent piece of advice. You usually have two or three people with two or three different ideas. So you want to have your own set of thoughts.
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#76. I do think you have sort of a general philosophical approach that you want from a justice, and I think a strict constructionist would be probably the way I'd describe it.
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#77. Donald Trump is a leader. He will reassert America's position as the nation with the best values to lead the world.
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#78. When we faced a possibility here in New York of chemical and biological attack, three days after September 11, I called in all of the experts, academic experts, Nobel Prize laureates, and doctors who had dealt with anthrax, doctors who had dealt with various forms of chemical and biological attack.
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#79. Thank God we're safe. What I anticipated on Sept. 11 was that we would be attacked many times between then and now, and we haven't been.
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#80. We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people.
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#81. When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.
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#82. St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle.
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#83. Life needs penalties and rewards for people. You can't control people with only penalties. You have to think how to create rewards.
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#84. When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.
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#86. I am open and will continue to be open to ways to limit abortion. What I am not open to is to removing the right.
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#87. All the same stuff that happened to [Bob] McDonnell , and McDonnell got prosecuted. And he [Tim Kaine] is sitting there free and - just like Hillary [Clinton].
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#88. I support security at the borders. I think security is enormously important in the post-September 11th period. I think we have to know who's coming into this country. We have to be able to identify them; we have to be able to figure out who they are.
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#89. Being mayor of New York was a crisis a week and an emergency every other day.
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#90. Chief Justice Roberts is somebody I work with, somebody I admire, Justice Alito someone I knew when he was U.S. attorney, also admire.
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#91. The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future.
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#92. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
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#93. One of the lessons from Sept. 11 is that America requires a long-term presence in those parts of the world that endanger us. This notion has become controversial, but frankly, the need could not be clearer.
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#94. So I think we're, we're, we're as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different political spectrum.
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#95. We can't accommodate terrorism. When someone uses the slaughter of innocent people to advance a so-called political cause, at that point the political cause becomes immoral and unjust and they should be eliminated from any serious discussion, any serious debate.
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#97. Partial-birth abortion, I think that's going to be upheld. I think that ban is going to be upheld. I think it should be. And I think, as long as there's provision for the life of the mother, then that's something that should be done.
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#98. My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'
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#99. You know, in the horror movie you kill the monster, and the hand re-emerges. And if you're not looking, the hand grows back and then the monster's there again. That cannot be allowed to happen.
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#100. The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare.
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