Quotes by Rudy Giuliani

About Rudy Giuliani:

Rudolph William Louis is an American lawyer, businessman, former politician, and public speaker from New York. Politically a Democrat and then an Independent in the 1970s, but a Republican since the 1980s, Giuliani was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York during the 1980s and prosecuted pivotal cases against the Italian Mafia and against corrupt corporate financiers. Giuliani tamed organized crime—most famously leading the case that sent boss John Gotti, the "Teflon Don," to prison for life based on testimony brokered in a deal with Sammy "The Bull" Gravano. That accomplishment, which won Giuliani a reputation for being tough on crime, helped to launch his political career.
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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.

Rudy Giuliani

The reality is even if you are a hands-on Mayor or Governor or chief executive, at best, you must know about 10 or 20% of what's going on. Otherwise, you never get through the day... I was very hands on, and there's lots of stuff I didn't know, and l...

Rudy Giuliani

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.

Rudy Giuliani

I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there's only so much somebody else can tell you about it, and they impose their own distortions on the description. You need to see it yourself.

Rudy Giuliani

In an emergency, you rarely get one consistent piece of advice. You usually have two or three people with two or three different ideas. So you want to have your own set of thoughts.

Rudy Giuliani

There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean, all these memories come back to you at different times. And then the other side of it this tremendo...

Rudy Giuliani

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 fenc...

Rudy Giuliani

We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking, but you can't let them drive you completely.

Rudy Giuliani

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

Rudy Giuliani

The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency.

Rudy Giuliani

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

Rudy Giuliani

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

Rudy Giuliani

When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.

Rudy Giuliani

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.

Rudy Giuliani

I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers.

Rudy Giuliani

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.

Rudy Giuliani

The rule is, you can protest all you want. Make all the noise you want. Carry all the signs you want. The minute you throw a rock, you get arrested. The minute you break a window, you get arrested. The minute you break into a store, you get arrested.

Rudy Giuliani

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

Rudy Giuliani

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.

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I am a free market Republican. I am against subsidies, in most cases.

Rudy Giuliani

Author Bio

  • NameRudy Giuliani
  • DescriptionUS-american politician
  • AliasesRudolph Giuliani
  • BornMay 28, 1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionLawyer; Politician; Writer; Entrepreneur
  • AwardsKnight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Ronald Reagan Freedom Award