Top 100 Rudolph W. Giuliani Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

3. “Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

4. “When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

5. “Compassion doesn’t weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.”

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6. “America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There’s nothing like America.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

7. “To be locked into partisan politics doesn’t permit you to think clearly.”

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8. “What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

9. “The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don’t want to live through that nightmare.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

11. “All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

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12. “We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

13. “My father used to say to me, ‘Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you’ll be able to figure your way out of it.’”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

14. “God bless every soul that we lost. God bless the families who have to endure that loss, and God guide us to our reunion in heaven, and God bless the United States of America.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

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

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16. “The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

17. “Thank God we’re safe. What I anticipated on Sept. 11 was that we would be attacked many times between then and now, and we haven’t been.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

18. “If we were building our navy, rather than reducing our navy to pre-World War I levels, China would not be thinking about increasing its navy to take over the South China Sea.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

19. “Quit Iraq Study Group to avoid politicizing it.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

20. “We don’t all agree on everything. I don’t agree with myself on everything.”

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21. “You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don’t agree with myself 100 percent. You don’t even agree with me 100 percent.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

22. “Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other.”

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23. “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.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

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

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25. “Being mayor of New York was a crisis a week and an emergency every other day.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

26. “Didn’t vet Bernard Kerik sufficiently for DHS recommendation.”

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27. “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 than you.”

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28. “The best way to contain China and make it the peaceful rise of China is for us to have an enormously robust navy that is the greatest navy in the world, that can patrol two oceans, that can fight two or three wars, and China will not challenge us because the Chinese are practical.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

29. “Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

30. “I believe in a woman’s right to choose.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

31. “We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

32. “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.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

33. “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.”

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34. “God help this country if we’re now prepared to vote for someone we don’t trust. But every election cycle we do things we never dreamed of.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

35. “If you don’t find a way to do something as work that is fulfilling and enjoyable, then your life is going to be really sad.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

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

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37. “No magic formula can completely prepare us for crises in life. However, each choice we make now will impact how we handle those crises in the future. Make your choice count. Dedicate time each day to developing your character. If you do, courage will be there when you need it most.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

38. “People have a right to protest; they have a right to make their opinion. They can be very upset about what they consider to be a murder of a person in custody, but you cannot destroy property. First person does it goes to jail.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

39. “You know, in the horror movie you kill the monster, and the hand re-emerges. And if you’re not looking, the hand grows back and then the monster’s there again. That cannot be allowed to happen.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

40. “It’s part of the Constitution. People have the right to bear arms. Then the restrictions of it have to be reasonable and sensible. You can’t just remove that right. You’ve got to regulate, consistent with the Second Amendment.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

41. “The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life.”

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42. “The number of casualties will be more than most of us can bear.”

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43. “It’s a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.”

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44. “Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honorable title of citizen of New York, and citizen of the United States.”

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45. “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.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

46. “It wouldn’t quite be fair to say September 11, like, made my career.”

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47. “We can’t accommodate terrorism. When someone uses the slaughter of innocent people to advance a so-called political cause, at that point the political cause becomes immoral and unjust and they should be eliminated from any serious discussion, any serious debate.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

48. “I support security at the borders. I think security is enormously important in the post-September 11th period. I think we have to know who’s coming into this country. We have to be able to identify them; we have to be able to figure out who they are.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

49. “I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

50. “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.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani