Rudy Giuliani Quotes (91 Quotes)

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

President Bush decided that we could no longer be just on defense against global terrorism, but we must also be on offense,

Police officers on duty, or traveling back and forth to work, or traveling anywhere, shouldn't be drinking and getting behind the wheel of a car, and they shouldn't be drinking because they have a gun with them,

The party is a big party. And I fit into the party real well over the last 10 to 15 years.

It is important to see the contrast in approach between the two men President Bush, a leader who is willing to stick with difficult decisions even as public opinion shifts and John Kerry , whose record in elected office suggests a man who changes his position often, even on important issues.

At the core of the change is the commitment the Disney Co. made to Times Square two and a half years ago when the changes were not so apparent and the first question asked was 'How could you make an investment in Times Square'

This is hallowed ground, sacred ground, ... We decided to put up these platforms because there's been so much of an interest in seeing this site.

Make sure that you open the bottle yourself. And you actually hear it, and you hear the noise and the air coming out,

Emergencies, by their very nature, are impossible situations to handle,

send a very clear message that drinking and being a police officer is a very dangerous combination.

We don't know exactly what happened. The idea of an explosion is something we'll have to take a look at,

We are still within that time frame, ... and the experts say there are still situations in which people have survived for this length of time.

I know that this is a very painful and difficult process, ... We just have to begin this process, and we thought the best way to do it is to just leave it up to the families.

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

a vote for the most liberal member of the United States Senate.

put my health first.

New York City has dealt with storms much, much worse than this, ... The snow doesn't mean anything to New Yorkers. We can handle the snow. We can handle anything.

As prepared, Giuliani was scheduled to say, So long as George Bush is president, is there any doubt they will continue to hear from us until we defeat global terrorism. ... So long as George Bush is our President, is there any doubt they will continue to hear from us.

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.

The house in Chappaqua is up for sale, ... and you can get it for a bargain on Wednesday.

It's the only way to recapture the worst day in the history of our city - and the best day in the history of our city,

St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle.

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.

We're going to help the people of Rockaway, ... They deserve it. They're very strong and good people. We're going to help the Dominican community. It's one of our strong and most important communities in the city. We're all going to pull together and we're going to be even stronger.

President Bush sees world terrorism for the evil that it is,

I don't know what I'm going to be doing in 2008, ... I wasn't planning when I was associate attorney general or U.S. attorney (in the 1980s) to run for mayor. It all came gradually much closer to the time that I did it.

understanding the difficulties and split-second decisions that police officers have to make during the performance of their duties.

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.

Let's now make this kind of a permanent condition for New York City, that New York City is one of the safest large cities in America, and let's keep it that way,

The reason for that is that the armory is too small to deal with the number of people who have so far registered, ... So far we have 3,735 families who have registered. We expect there are going to be more.

I want to say that I was very humbled and very moved by the selection by Time magazine,

This is a state that deserves the kind of honest, accountable leadership that Doug Forrester can bring.

If you know that your husband or father or relative was working there, and you've come to terms with the idea that they're dead and they're not going to be recovered, then you can make the choice -- and it's your choice -- to apply for the death certificate,

You learn a great deal when you come close and you do a good job but you lose an election, ... The campaign he's run this time is absolutely terrific, it's right on target.

I'll tell you his record -- attempted robbery, robbery, assault, disorderly conduct, sale of drugs, and punching someone during a transaction involving the sale of drugs,

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.

We used to be the crime capital and now we're the safest large city in America. We used to be the welfare capital of America and now we're seen as the city that has moved more people off welfare, has moved more people to work from welfare, of any city in America,

The whole notion that police officers won't cooperate, this blue wall of silence thing -- the police commissioner and I challenged the police officers to break that silence, ... And one police officer -- a police officer, not a civilian -- came forward and courageously gave the district attorney the information that really has helped to pull this case together.

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.

The contrasts are dramatic. They involve very different views of how to deal with terrorism. President Bush will make certain that we are combating terrorism at the source, beyond our shores, so we can reduce the risk of having to confront it in the streets of New York, ... John Kerry's record of inconsistent positions on combating terrorism gives us no confidence he'll pursue such a determined course.

All it's going to do to the New Year's Eve celebration is make it more special, ... The snow should end by the end of the day (Saturday) so we can clean it up, and New York City will look even more beautiful.