Rudy Giuliani Quotes

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When you confront a problem, you begin to solve it.

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Most of Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine.

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

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Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do, and how you do it.

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The idea of trying to cast blame on President Clinton is just wrong for many, many reasons, not the least of which is I don't think he deserves it.

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

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Our hearts are broken, but they continue to beat, and the spirit of our City has never been stronger.

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Show your confidence. Show you're not afraid. Go to restaurants. Go shopping.

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

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I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America. He doesn't love you. And he doesn't love me. He wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.

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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.

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

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Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors. … History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the reverse.

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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.

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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.

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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

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... the sky's the limit for all Americans if we have the right kind of leadership.

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We can determine America's future. After all, that's what an election is all about. So let's decide for optimism, not pessimism; for hope, not despair; for strength, not weakness; for victory, not defeat.

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We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We've had one under Obama.

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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.

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No, I have not supported that, and I don't see my position on that changing.

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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?

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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