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

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. “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

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

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

61. “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

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

63. “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

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

67. “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

68. “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

69. “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

70. “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

71. “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

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

73. “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

74. “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

75. “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

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

79. “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

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

82. “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

83. “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

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

86. “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

87. “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

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

91. “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

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

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

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

95. “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

96. “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

97. “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

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. “Life needs penalties and rewards for people. You can’t control people with only penalties. You have to think how to create rewards.”

— Rudolph W. Giuliani

100. “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