Giuliani Quotes

#1. Rudy Giuliani did some phenomenal things in the city if you think of the transformation of the city and the quality of life.

Joe Lhota

#2. If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people who were too insane or too extremist to even get on the George W. Bush team.

Josh Marshall

#3. New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani fired his wife, Donna Hanover, as official hostess of the mayor's mansion last weekend. He's got his own idea of what a hostess should be. He wants a little cupcake.

Argus Hamilton

#4. This idea of tying me to Giuliani is quite unique. I know Rudy Giuliani. I like Rudy Giuliani. I worked with him during his administration. But we're completely different people.

Joseph J. Lhota

#5. From my admittedly cranky perspective, Bush/Cheney are lousy on the Bill of Rights, Clinton/Gore were lousy on the Bill of Rights, and everyone within bribing distance of the 2008 election (Hillary, McCain, Giuliani) are lousy on the Bill of Rights, too.

Matt Welch

#6. If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.

Ed Koch

#7. I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.

Lynn Samuels

#8. How Giuliani is not Trump's running mate no one will ever understand. Theirs is the most passionate love story since Beavis and Butthead.

Matt Taibbi

#9. Heritage Action is a self-interested fundraising organization led by a former Giuliani staffer who is not taking counsel from real conservatives ... It is a worthless organization to the conservative movement. I'll be the first to say that.

Geoff Davis

#10. There were 23 or 24 separate tax cuts during the Giuliani administration. I'd love to be able to equal that.

Joe Lhota

#11. I really like John McCain. He's an awesome dude and was a lot of fun when he hosted "SNL." I'd love to see a McCain-Giuliani "rage" ticket.

Tina Fey

#12. I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani ...

Susan Lucci

#13. There is no doubt in my mind that Rudy Giuliani in the Senate will be a leader for the people of New York but also for the people of Arizona and the people all over this country.

John McCain

#14. Rudy Giuliani is more accomplished at cutting taxes than anyone else.

Pat Toomey

#15. There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless.

Cynthia Nixon

#16. Celestina Giuliani learned the word "slander" at her cousin's baptism.

Mary Doria Russell

#17. When I interviewed Paul Bremer in his office he had almost no books on his shelves. He had a couple of management books, like "Leadership" by Rudolph Giuliani . I didn't take it as an encouraging sign.

George Packer

#18. I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11 in it. I was wrong. He called me to tell me after Pat Robertson's endorsement, there's an Amen in every sentence he says too.

Joe Biden

#19. I had a recurring fantasy in which I took (Rudy Giuliani) out during a press conference (it was nonlethal, just something that put him out of commission for a year or so), saving America from the horror of a President Giuliani. If that sounds like I had some trouble being 'objective,' I did.

Michael Hastings

#20. New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted.

Rufus Wainwright

#21. Would I be the 3rd term of Rudy Giuliani or the 4th term of Mike Bloomberg? It'll be neither. It'll be the first term of Joe Lhota. We're all different.

Joe Lhota

#22. I used to walk in the Bowery in the early 1980s, and it was not safe. It went from this to Disneyland under Giuliani and Bloomberg. This is now one of the best-run big cities in the world.

Mark Rutte

#23. Since nobody upstages Rudolph Giuliani, his will be a Broadway-class show, perhaps his final bravura performance before November 2000, when he hopes to be turned out of the mayor's office by virtue of his election to the United States Senate.

Gail Sheehy

#24. I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.

Roz Chast

#25. I listen a little to the Democrats, and if one of them gets elected, we are going on defense," Giuliani continued. "We will wave the white flag on Iraq. We will cut back on the Patriot Act, electronic surveillance, interrogation and we will be back to our pre-September 11 attitude of defense.

Rudy Giuliani

#26. I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.

Jennifer Granholm

#27. Did you see Britney Spears at the Video Music Awards? I don't want to say that that performance was a disaster, but after the show, I saw Rudy Giuliani having his picture taken standing on her.

Bill Maher

#28. I cannot be separated from Rudy Giuliani, but I am also not Rudy Giuliani.

Joseph J. Lhota

#29. Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders.

James Dobson

#30. It looks like Rudy Giuliani is out of the race. Finally, a Republican with an exit strategy.

Jay Leno

#31. In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.

Conan O'Brien

#32. The gist of what Mayor Giuliani said
that the President has shown himself to be completely unable to speak the truth about the nature of the threats from these ISIS terrorists - is true.

Bobby Jindal

#33. It has been reported that Rudolph Giuliani has trademarked the name 'Rudolph Giuliani' so other candidates can't use his name in negative campaign ads ... For similar reasons, Hillary Clinton has trademarked the words 'ballbuster,' 'castrater,' and 'nutcruncher.'

Conan O'Brien

#34. Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#35. 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.

Rudy Giuliani

#36. 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.

Rudy Giuliani

#37. 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.

Rudy Giuliani

#38. 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.

Rudy Giuliani

#39. We had no domestic attacks under Bush,

Rudy Giuliani

#40. On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time ... to put us on offense against terrorists.

Rudy Giuliani

#41. I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.

Rudy Giuliani

#42. I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mother's family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.

Rudy Giuliani

#43. 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.

Rudy Giuliani

#44. In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.

Rudy Giuliani

#45. What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

Rudy Giuliani

#46. The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black.

Rudy Giuliani

#47. What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan ... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.

Rudy Giuliani

#48. Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other.

Rudy Giuliani

#49. It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.

Rudy Giuliani

#50. Not from my point of view ... [Clinton] want[s] to move toward mandated government medicine, socialized medicine.

Rudy Giuliani

#51. Didn't vet Bernard Kerik sufficiently for DHS recommendation.

Rudy Giuliani

#52. Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America. If they don't do that, it's very hard to hold us together as a country, because it's shared values that hold us together.

Rudy Giuliani

#53. Every time New York City suffered a tragedy, Donald Trump was there to help. And he did it anonymously.

Rudy Giuliani

#54. I get through difficult situations by looking at how other people have gone through them. I say to myself, 'If they can go through it, then I can.' Or, If they can go through worse, I can go through whatever I'm going through.

Rudy Giuliani

#55. One can look at John McCain and say that he's not ready to be commander-in-chief.

Rudy Giuliani

#56. The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified.

Rudy Giuliani

#57. We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking, but you can't let them drive you completely.

Rudy Giuliani

#58. With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

Rudy Giuliani

#59. We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

Rudy Giuliani

#60. More trade with Qatar & emirates is good against terrorism.

Rudy Giuliani

#61. It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.

Rudy Giuliani

#62. 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,

Rudy Giuliani

#63. America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.

Rudy Giuliani

#64. To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.

Rudy Giuliani

#65. 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.

Rudy Giuliani

#66. The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency.

Rudy Giuliani

#67. We have to be on offense against terrorists, that we have to make it bipartisan, that it isn't about being a Democrat or a Republican. It's about being an American.

Rudy Giuliani

#68. Donald Trump will make sure that any agreement with Iran meets the original goals of the U.N and our allies: a non-nuclear Iran.

Rudy Giuliani

#69. 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.

Rudy Giuliani

#70. 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.

Rudy Giuliani

#71. I want the people of New York to be an example to the rest of the country, and the rest of the world, that terrorism can't stop us.

Rudy Giuliani

#72. 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.

Rudy Giuliani

#73. Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

Rudy Giuliani

#74. My major focus is national security because that's really what the president runs.

Rudy Giuliani

#75. I've campaigned many, many times together with Senator McCain. He's campaigned for me; I've campaigned for him, good friend.

Rudy Giuliani

#76. In the 9/11 Commission Report, one of the things they point out is that firefighters saved just about everybody below the fire. I don't think they realize how proud the fire department is of that. Because, conceivably, that's all they could have done. They could not have gotten above that fire.

Rudy Giuliani

#77. 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.

Rudy Giuliani

#78. You have to be willing - you have strong ideas, you have strong views, but you have to be willing also to look at experience.

Rudy Giuliani

#79. There is a reality to the primary process, and you don't win primaries by being ahead in national polls. You win them by winning Iowa, by winning New Hampshire, by winning South Carolina, winning Florida.

Rudy Giuliani

#80. 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.

Rudy Giuliani

#81. I've probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in New York City with the possible exception of Mike Bloomberg, who was there for 12 years.

Rudy Giuliani

#82. 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.

Rudy Giuliani

#83. I'll tell you what makes me feel worthwhile: organizing and solving other people's problems. It makes me feel good to go to Mexico City and figure out theories on how you can reorganize and reduce crime. To me, it's one of the more fulfilling ways to spend a day.

Rudy Giuliani

#84. 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.

Rudy Giuliani

#85. I think the world is much better off without Saddam Hussein than with him.

Rudy Giuliani

#86. Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear in many parts of the world.

Rudy Giuliani

#87. Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

Rudy Giuliani

#88. 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.

Rudy Giuliani

#89. I was pretty successful before Sept. 11 and fully expected that when I left being mayor I would be very successful.

Rudy Giuliani

#90. I've never seen a guy change his position so many times, so fast, on a dime.

Rudy Giuliani

#91. I think abortion is something that, as a personal matter, I would advise somebody against.

Rudy Giuliani

#92. I lived through crises. September 11 is obviously the biggest one that I've lived through.

Rudy Giuliani

#93. People have a right to protest; they have a right to make their opinion. They can be very upset about what they consider to be a murder of a person in custody, but you cannot destroy property. First person does it goes to jail.

Rudy Giuliani

#94. Rick Perry I have a great fondness for. And what Rick Perry has, like Jeb Bush has, it will be interesting to compare their two records as governor, very close, great economic development, low taxes, all the things we want domestically out of a president.

Rudy Giuliani

#95. The thoughts I express, whether clearly or ambiguously, are my own and they are my individual responsibility.

Rudy Giuliani

#96. First thing you have to do is say to yourself what can I bring to it, what can I do and how can I make the country better? How can I improve it?

Rudy Giuliani

#97. 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.

Rudy Giuliani

#98. 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.

Rudy Giuliani

#99. America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

Rudy Giuliani

#100. The most visible symbol in New York is the spirit of a free people.

Rudy Giuliani