Quotes by 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 ...”

“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...”

“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...”

“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 tha...”

“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.”

“Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.”

“When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, 'I want you to emerge stronger from this.' My words were partially a hope and parti...”

“When you're in a crisis of, you know, tremendous proportions, it's beyond any human capability to control, you just make the best decisions you can, and you just hope that your intuition is correct.”

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

“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. Mayb...”

“I think the president has to be treated like everyone else. 'Cause I think under the criminal law everybody should be treated the same. I know there are people who would say that the president shou...”

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

“I’m pro-choice. I’m pro-gay rights.”

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

“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 poss...”

“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 fre...”

“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.”