Rudy Giuliani

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

— Rudy Giuliani

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

— Rudy Giuliani

I’m pro-choice. I’m pro-gay rights.

— Rudy Giuliani

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

— Rudy Giuliani

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.

— Rudy Giuliani

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 ever to live our lives in freedom

— Rudy Giuliani

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

— Rudy Giuliani

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

— 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

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.

— Rudy Giuliani

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?

— Rudy Giuliani

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

— Rudy Giuliani

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.

— Rudy Giuliani

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.

— 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.

— Rudy Giuliani

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

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.

— Rudy Giuliani

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.

— Rudy Giuliani

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

— Rudy Giuliani

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.

— Rudy Giuliani

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

— Rudy Giuliani

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

— Rudy Giuliani

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.

— Rudy Giuliani

Truth isn't truth.

— 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 or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it.

— Rudy Giuliani

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

— Rudy Giuliani

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

— Rudy Giuliani

The most important lesson my dad taught me was how to manage fear. Early on, he taught me that in a time of emergency, you've got to become deliberately calm.

— 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.

— Rudy Giuliani