Rudy Giuliani Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Revenge #Noble #Sentiments

“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.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Republican #Terrorist #Democrat

“When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Inspirational #Problem #Solve

“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.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#War #Hands #Want

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

#September 11 #Stronger #Spirit

“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.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Philosophical #Thinking #Justice

“Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Leadership #Vision #Needs

“My major focus is national security because that's really what the president runs.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Running #Focus #President

“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.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Children #Kindness #Life Lesson

“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.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Jail #People #Upset

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

#Art #Martial Arts #Being Afraid

“And if you have a law that isn't working, and you have thousands and thousands and millions of people, then the terrorists hide among them. And we have to have a law that makes sense.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Law #People #Terrorist

“We had no domestic attacks under Bush,”
-- Rudy Giuliani

“I lived through crises. September 11 is obviously the biggest one that I've lived through.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#September 11 #September #Crisis

“Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Rude #Decision #Strategy

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

#New York #Emergencies #Week

“It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Law #Police #Enforcement

“There's never any guarantee at war.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#War #Guarantees

“The attacks of September 11th 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

#Religious #Patriotic #Law

“Mexico has many more kidnappings than the United States. The U.S. has very few kidnappings.The reason is, in the United States, we don't pay ransom. We turn it over to the FBI. They catch the person. And then, of course, we used to have the death penalty for it. Now it's life in prison. In Mexico, everybody pays. It's a business...”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Mexico #Ransom #Pay

“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

#Inspirational #Strength #Leadership

“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.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#War #Thinking #Sea

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

#Exercise #Intelligent #Thinking

“I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult balance, because if you are elected to public office, people have a right to know a great deal about you, and the press has an absolute obligation to report all of that. But the reality is that there are times in which the reporting is really happening for almost voyeuristic reasons, in the gossip columns. Maybe half of it is wrong, and half of it is correct, and a lot of it is exaggerated. You've just got to get used to that if you're in public life.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Reality #Media #Gossip

“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.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Two #Interesting #President

“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.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Country #Election #Helping

“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.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Community #African American #President

“If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Support #Trials #Alternatives

“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.”
-- Rudy Giuliani

#People #Second Amendment #Arms

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

#People #Support #Second Amendment