Top 100 Rudolph W. Giuliani Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

52. “In choosing a president, we really don’t choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

53. “I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mothers family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

54. “I’ve never seen a guy change his position so many times, so fast, on a dime.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

55. “I haven’t seen it. I don’t really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

56. “I think that sometimes the most intelligent things that prosecutors do is when they exercise their discretion not to go forward with a case.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

57. “The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

58. “And it’s a little – very humbling to think that running for president of the United States is – for a kid from Brooklyn, it’s quite a step.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

59. “I don’t feel like I’m running against them, I feel like I’m running to try to show the American people what I can do and what I can accomplish.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

60. “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.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

61. “If there’s no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

62. “I lowered taxes in New York. I reduced the size of government in New York. I took a $2.4 billion deficit and turned it into a $3.2 billion surplus. And I reduced taxes over 23 times or 23 times.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

63. “I’m looking for a president that’ll be like a Ronald Reagan to a Jimmy Carter.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

64. “In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

65. “In 2012 President Obama didn’t go anywhere near African-American communities. Why? Because unemployment was so high there, he didn’t want to address it.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

66. “The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

67. “While I was the mayor abortions in New York went down and adoptions went way up, because we worked on adoptions as an alternative, so that there’d be a real choice.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

68. “You have to be willing – you have strong ideas, you have strong views, but you have to be willing also to look at experience.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

69. “You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you’re not expressing that kind of love that we’re used to from a president.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

70. “I’m probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

71. “I understand the Second Amendment. I support it. People have the right to bear arms.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

72. “The reality is you’ve got to be yourself. You’ve got to be who you are. You’ve got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you’ve got to be willing to express it.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

73. “I’ve campaigned many, many times together with Senator McCain. He’s campaigned for me; I’ve campaigned for him, good friend.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

74. “You believe that you can win the nomination of your party, and then you believe that you’re the strongest candidate to win the election for your party.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

76. “Disagrees with neocon adviser on immediate need to bomb Iran.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

77. “A leader must not let critics set the agenda.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

78. “I have no objection to the concept of domestic partnership.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

79. “There’s never any guarantee at war.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

80. “The thoughts I express, whether clearly or ambiguously, are my own and they are my individual responsibility.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

81. “We have to be on offense against terrorists, that we have to make it bipartisan, that it isn’t about being a Democrat or a Republican. It’s about being an American.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

82. “I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

83. “My major focus is national security because that’s really what the president runs.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

84. “I’m not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he’s a pragmatist.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

85. “I want the people of New York to be an example to the rest of the country, and the rest of the world, that terrorism can’t stop us.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

86. “I do think you have sort of a general philosophical approach that you want from a justice, and I think a strict constructionist would be probably the way I’d describe it.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

87. “One can look at John McCain and say that he’s not ready to be commander-in-chief.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

88. “I’m pro-choice. I’m pro-gay rights.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

89. “Keep pressure on Iran, because pressure works.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

90. “With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

91. “The Republican Party would be well advised to get the heck out of people’s bedrooms.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

92. “The most visible symbol in New York is the spirit of a free people.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

93. “No time limit in Iraq; stay until we achieve stability.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

94. “Did business with Qatar, a US ally which protects al-Qaeda.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

95. “The minute Putin went into Crimea, what Obama should have done is sent 50,000 troops to NATO. He didn’t have to engage them, just send them. That puts the fear of God into people.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

96. “He changed his position on virtually everything. I’m a moderate Republican, that’s what I am, so I’d be inclined to support someone like Mitt Romney. But all those changes give me pause.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

97. “We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

98. “If we take back the labor unions, the legitimate businesses, eventually they become just another street gang. Spiritually, psychologically, they’ve always been just a street gang.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

99. “Rick Perry I have a great fondness for. And what Rick Perry has, like Jeb Bush has, it will be interesting to compare their two records as governor, very close, great economic development, low taxes, all the things we want domestically out of a president.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

100. “St. Paul’s Chapel stands – without so much as a broken window. Little miracle.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani