Top 60 Rudy Giuliani Quotes

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

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.

I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society. If I had put all of my police officers on Park Avenue and none in Harlem, thousands and thousands more blacks would’ve been killed during the eight years that I was mayor.

The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

In choosing a president, we really don’t choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

I probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in the history of this city. And I did it by having to use police officers in black areas where there was an astounding amount of crime. If that crime was in white areas, police officers would be in white areas.

I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made – and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the core of communism and socialism – is that you can have perfect solutions to social problems like poverty, like crime. You’re not going to eliminate all crime. Maybe you’ll never eliminate all poverty.

St. Paul’s Chapel stands – without so much as a broken window. Little miracle.

You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don’t agree with myself 100 percent.

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.

My father taught me, in boxing, that when you – particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time – you’re going to panic. That instead of panicking, just accept it. Stay calm. And any time anybody hits you, they always leave themselves open to be hit.

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.

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.

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

You never begin a new life. It’s a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there’s no continuity.

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.

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.

It’s about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

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.

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.

The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.

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.

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

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.

I don’t invest in the stock market. I did it a long, long time ago when I was really young, and I got involved in all the investigations and all the prosecutions, and I felt it was better if I didn’t make individual investments. So I’m invested in funds, but not in individual – not in individual stocks.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

My view of Sarah Palin is she is the most dynamic figure maybe in politics, even more in some ways than President Obama, who is a little more scripted than she is. He is great with the teleprompter.

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.

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.

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.

It’s time to make America safe again. It’s time to make America one again. I know it can be done because I did it by changing New York City from ‘the crime capital of America’ to – according to the FBI – the safest large city in America. What I did for New York City, Donald Trump will do for America.

I’m not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he’s a pragmatist.

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.