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Rudy Giuliani

Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani III (born 28 May 1944) is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician. Formerly mayor of New York City, Giuliani was briefly a leading candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2008 United States presidential election.

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  • We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for thirty or forty or fifty years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. 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.

  • Most of Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine.
    • 1996 statement to Jack Newfield, as quoted by Newfield in the New York Post (8 June 1999)

  • I’m pro-choice. I’m pro-gay rights.
    • As quoted on CNN's Inside Politics (2 December 1999)

  • No, I have not supported that, and I don’t see my position on that changing.
    • When asked if he supported a ban on partial-birth abortion, as quoted on CNN's Inside Politics (2 December 1999)

  • The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear ultimately. And I don't think we want to speculate on the number of casualties. The effort now has to be to save as many people as possible.
    • When asked to estimate the number of casualties terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, at a news conference (11 September 2001); this is often misquoted as "More than we can bear."

  • The attacks of September 11 were intended to break our spirit, instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the principles of political, economic and religious freedom, the rule of law and respect for human life. We are more determined than every to live our lives in freedom

  • I don’t need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11.

  • Leaders must be optimists. Their vision was beyond the present and set on a future of real peace and true freedom.

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

  • There are many qualities that make a great leader but having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

  • No matter how you try to blame it on the president, the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there. Did they search carefully enough?



  • It would be very dangerous to use the military option [against Iran]. It would not be a good thing. But it would be much more dangerous and much worse if they had nuclear weapons.
    • Hannity and Colmes, Fox News, April 4, 2007.



  • I was at ground zero as often, if not more, than most of the workers. I was there working with them. I was there guiding things. I was there bringing people there. But I was exposed to exactly the same things they were exposed to. So in that sense, I'm one of them.
    • While campaigning in Cincinnati, as quoted in The New York Times (11 August 2007)




  • Change is not a destination as hope is not a strategy.
    • Republican National Convention, 2008

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  • I never saw myself as any different than another New Yorker, because that's who I was. I was born in Brooklyn and I lived in Queens, and I went to school in the Bronx, and I lived in Manhattan, and I spent a lot of time in Staten Island. So I felt very much a part of the city. And even when people would say to me later, "You showed great strength," I would always say, because it's true, that I just reflected the strength of the people of the city.

  • The number of people that put their lives at risk, just totally overwhelmed the evil of the act.

Quotes about Giuliani

  • Rudy Giuliani — there's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9/11.
    • Joe Biden, October 30, 2007 MSNBC Democratic Debate

  • Frankly, you have to understand the fact that Rudy Giuliani was a McGovern Democrat, he was endorsed by the Liberal Party when he ran for Mayor. In his heart, he's a Democrat. He's paraded all over this country with Bill Clinton and, in fact, he's very comfortable with Mario Cuomo. But what Rudy Giuliani wants is to be bailed out in the city, in the mess he's in, and everybody understands very clearly in politics that they struck a deal, that Mario's going to continue to be the big spender, save Rudy the options of raising taxes by pouring money statewide into the City of New York and bailing it out.
    • Michael Long, Chairman N.Y.S. Conservative Party, interviewed on CNN, Crossfire, (1994-10-25)

  • He's basically Goro in a suit.
    • Michael Moore in response to Giuliani's treatment of the homeless

  • And I just want to say one other thing about Mayor Giuliani: As this began, and if you were like me, and in many respects, God, I hope you're not. But in this one small measure, if you're like me, and you're watching and you're confused and depressed and irritated and angry and full of grief, and you don't know how to behave and you're not sure what to do and you don't really... because we've never been through this before... all you had to do at any moment was watch the Mayor. Watch how this guy behaved. Watch how this guy conducted himself. Watch what this guy did. Listen to what this guy said. Rudolph Giuliani is the personification of courage.

  • And I wanted to say to the mayor of New York all our concern, our admiration for what has been done after this drama, with such an efficiency, very full of clever and heart. I told him that in the French press, when they mention the mayor of New York, they say "mayor hero" (ph), which is a French expression equivalent to "Rudy the Rock".

  • He's the man of the hour, a man whose extraordinary grace under pressure in the days since this devastating attack has led him to be called America's mayor. He's the mayor of New York City, ladies and gentlemen, Rudy Giuliani.



  • As Mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani showed how exercising fiscal discipline, including tax cuts, lowers deficits, spurs economic growth, and increases revenue. It is time the rest of the country benefit from a true fiscal conservative leader who gets real results.

  • Rudy Giuliani is a true American hero, and we know this because he does all the things we expect of heroes these days -- like make $16 million a year, and lobby for Hugo Chávez and Rupert Murdoch, and promote wars without ever having served in the military, and hire a lawyer to call his second wife a "stuck pig," and organize absurd, grandstanding pogroms against minor foreign artists, and generally drift through life being a shameless opportunist with an outsize ego who doesn't even bother to conceal the fact that he's had a hard-on for the presidency since he was in diapers. In the media age, we can't have a hero humble enough to actually be one; what is needed is a tireless scoundrel, a cad willing to pose all day long for photos, who'll accept $100,000 to talk about heroism for an hour, who has the balls to take a $2.7 million advance to write a book about himself called Leadership. That's Rudy Giuliani. Our hero. And a perfect choice to uphold the legacy of George W. Bush.

  • Rudy Giuliani is a problem solver with common sense leadership who made a tremendous and positive difference as Mayor of New York, impacting peoples’ lives for the better.

  • Rudy Giuliani has shown that he is a true leader. He can and will win the nomination and the presidency. He is America's mayor, and during a period of time of great stress for this country he showed tremendous leadership.

  • Well, among other things, it seems Rudy's a bit of a fibber. Says one thing one, then denies it a few hours later, apparently not familiar with the concept of audio and video recordings.

  • He is a small man in search of a balcony.
    • Jimmy Breslin, quoted by Paul Slansky in "'Giuliani Time!': The Rudy Quiz", The New Yorker, December 17, 2007

  • [He] didn't bring us together, our pain brought us together... We would have come together if Bozo was the mayor.
    • Al Sharpton, quoted by Paul Slansky in "'Giuliani Time!': The Rudy Quiz", The New Yorker, December 17, 2007
 
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