Rudy Giuliani quotes - page 2

After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and other terrorist incidents, "The United States government, then President Clinton, did not respond. Bin Laden declared war on us. We didn't hear it. (Rudy Giuliani)
Iraq may get better; Iraq may get worse. We may be successful in Iraq; we may not be. I don't know the answer to that. That's in the hands of other people. But what we do know for sure is the terrorists are going to be at war with us a year, a year and a half from now. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Most of Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine. View quote
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Truth isn't truth. View quote
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The only time the private parts of someone's life are relevant is when they're affecting public performance. And just because someone is a public person doesn't mean that any part of his or her private life is open to scrutiny. If someone is doing his or her job, you have to have enough empathy to understand that we all have personal problems. View quote
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We need to know who's in the United States. We need to know everyone who's in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren't. To accomplish that, we need a fence. We need a technological fence. We need a border patrol. View quote
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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. View quote
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I am a free market Republican. I am against subsidies, in most cases. View quote
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I'm not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he's a pragmatist. (Rudy Giuliani)
Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one. View quote
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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. View quote
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You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent. View quote
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We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society. View quote
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I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships. View quote
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Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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