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. – Rudy Giuliani
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. – Rudy Giuliani
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
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. – Rudy Giuliani
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. – Rudy Giuliani
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
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. – Rudy Giuliani
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. – Rudy Giuliani
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
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
America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States. – Rudy Giuliani
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. – Rudy Giuliani
I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships. – Rudy Giuliani
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
I’m not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he’s a pragmatist. – Rudy Giuliani
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
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. – Rudy Giuliani
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. – Rudy Giuliani
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
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
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
As Americans, we’re not sure we share values. We’re sometimes even afraid to use the word ‘values.’ We talk about teaching ethics in schools – people say, ‘What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can’t.’ And they confuse that with teaching of religion. – Rudy Giuliani
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. – Rudy Giuliani
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. – Rudy Giuliani
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. – Rudy Giuliani
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
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. – Rudy Giuliani
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
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. – Rudy Giuliani