110+ Rudy Giuliani Quotes On Education, Politics And Government

Rudy Giuliani is an American politician who served as the 107th Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He is currently serving as the personal attorney for President Donald Trump. Giuliani is a Republican who previously served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Associate Attorney General in the Reagan administration. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Rudy Giuliani on education, politics, government.

Top 10 Rudy Giuliani Quotes

1. Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.
2. With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.
3. America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.
4. The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified.
5. It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.
6. 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.'
7. When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.
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.
9. Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
10. Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.

Rudy Giuliani Image Quotes

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

Rudy Giuliani Short Quotes

• Disagrees with neocon adviser on immediate need to bomb Iran.
• When you say black lives matter, that's inherently racist.
• St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle.
• We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.
• Did business with Qatar, a US ally which protects al-Qaeda.
• Talk and action are two different things.
• The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life.
• Vote for the candidate you believe would be the best candidate. That's the way it should work.
• A lot of the people that are poor take advantage of loopholes and pay no taxes.
• I think the accusations are about Hillary Clinton taking money from countries that kill women.

Rudy Giuliani Quotes About Politics

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. — Rudy Giuliani

To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly. — Rudy Giuliani

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. — Rudy Giuliani

You gather a certain number of people around you but, you know, they look - they look - they didn't look to me like people who were, you know, carefully studying political science and were all upset about the ideology of the election. — Rudy Giuliani

I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th. — Rudy Giuliani

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. — Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani Quotes About Government

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. — 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 largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress. — Rudy Giuliani

Not from my point of view....[Clinton] want[s] to move toward mandated government medicine, socialized medicine. — Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani Quotes About Love

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. — Rudy Giuliani

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. — Rudy Giuliani

The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves. — Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani Quotes About Mayor

I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers. — Rudy Giuliani

When I ran for mayor of New York City, the first time, some people voted eight and ten times. And second time I had firefighters and police officers outside checking on the buses so we take down the number of the bus, the bus had voted ten times, and wouldn't let the bus vote again. — Rudy Giuliani

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. — Rudy Giuliani

I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships. — Rudy Giuliani

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

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. — Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani Quotes About Trump

Donald Trump is going to take our Army up to 6,000. And Obama and Hillary are going to take it down to 4,200. He is going to take our Marine Corps from 23 battalions to 35 battalions. And he's going to reestablish and modernize our nuclear program. — Rudy Giuliani

I even believe [Donald Trump] won a little after - after the election rethinking, I think if we'd spent a little more time in Minnesota, we would've won Minnesota. — Rudy Giuliani

Donald Trump has told me that he is proud of the fact that he finally got Barack Obama to produce his birth certificate. — Rudy Giuliani

I think people thought that if [Donald Trump] won, he'd win by one state the way that President [George W.] Bush did. — Rudy Giuliani

I see a comparison between the two [Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump]. Peace through strength. What Chris Matthews don't grasp is that day Donald Trump gave a speech in which he said he's going to build the U.S. military up to Ronald Reagan levels. — Rudy Giuliani

When [Donald Trump] talks about a rigged election, he's not talking about the fact that it's going to be rigged at the polls. What he's talking about is 80% to 85% of the media is against him. — Rudy Giuliani

I intend to work with President [Donald] Trump on those issues where he will, in fact, work for the middle class and working families in this country. I will vigorously oppose him if he appeals to racism or sexism. — Rudy Giuliani

My advice would be that once [Donald Trump] enters office, there should be a separation, a blind trust or some kind of blind trust. — Rudy Giuliani

The wall is going to to take a while. Obviously [Donald Trump] is going to build it.It's a campaign promise; he's not going to break a campaign promise. — Rudy Giuliani

I think people are exaggerating the fears of a Donald Trump presidency because they're coming off a campaign where they're very disappointed. — Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani Quotes About City

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. — Rudy Giuliani

There are very few situations where Republicans cheat. They don't control the inner cities the way Democrats do. Maybe if Republicans controlled the inner cities they would cheat as much as Democrats. — Rudy Giuliani

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design. — Rudy Giuliani

People die when you crowd the streets of New York City with protesters. You can do plenty of protesting on the sidewalk. — Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani Quotes About People

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. — 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

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. — Rudy Giuliani

We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people. — Rudy Giuliani

I'm sorry, dead people generally vote for Democrats rather than Republicans. — Rudy Giuliani

You want to do tax reductions, you want to do permanent tax reduction, reductions in spending. You've got to go out and explain it to the people, get them on your side and have them become the levers that you need in congressional relations. — Rudy Giuliani

If those were Donald Trump people doing that after a Hillary Clinton election, I think a lot of people be - a lot of that - there would be a lot more anger in the media at the fact that they're protesting a legitimately decided election. — Rudy Giuliani

In America, we do cheat. We have people who cheat in elections. — Rudy Giuliani

I've never ever attacked someone who's been the victim who's been the victim of sexual abuse. Not only that, I've put people in jail who've been the victim of sexual abuse. — Rudy Giuliani

I think we understand people frustration. We certainly don't want to make it worse. — Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani Quotes About Choosing

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

I believe in a woman's right to choose. — Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani Quotes About York

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. — Rudy Giuliani

When you look at the New York Times and you pick it up in the morning, at the top of the paper there's three stories that are anti-Trump. Some of them baseless, some of them silly. And at the bottom you get something about WikiLeaks. Same thing with The Washington Post. Way out of control. — Rudy Giuliani

Donald Trump can say hey, did she [Hillary Clinton] short-circuit when she reset the relationship with Vladimir Putin and now Russia is, according to "The New York Times" article today, Russia is in control in Syria? — Rudy Giuliani

The most visible symbol in New York is the spirit of a free people. — Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani Quotes About Leader

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

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. — Rudy Giuliani

It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge. — Rudy Giuliani

A leader must not let critics set the agenda. — Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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. — Rudy Giuliani

You've got to teach your children to be respectful to the police and you've got to teach your children that the real danger to them is not the police, the real danger to them 99 out of 100 times, 9,900 out of 1,000 times are other black kids who are going to kill them. — Rudy Giuliani

Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter. That's anti-American and it's racist. — Rudy Giuliani

Immigrants are exactly what America needs. They're what we need economically, and I think they're what we need morally... [They] revitalize America and get it back to its sense of confidence... All of these immigrants that come here help us with the work they do, they challenge us with new ideas and new perspectives, and they give us perspective. — Rudy Giuliani

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. — Rudy Giuliani

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

The reality is that Qatar is an ally of the United States. There are a significant number of American troops that are stationed in Qatar. What we did for them and do for them is security for their facilities. — Rudy Giuliani

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, never being in business, never really negotiating, give away for nothing things they shouldn't give away. — Rudy Giuliani

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

Ronald Reagan is going to go into negotiations with [Vladimir] Putin from a position of strength. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama gave up the game on day one when they reset the relationship with Russia and they gave up the nuclear defense of Poland and the Czech Republic. — Rudy Giuliani

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. — Rudy Giuliani

I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future. — Rudy Giuliani

When I run a business, and I run a business, if I don't take advantage of the five deductions that are available to me, even if you think those deductions are unfair, then I've violated my fiduciary duty. — Rudy Giuliani

Five years from the date of the attack that changed our world, we've come back to remember the valor of those we lost-those who innocently went to work that day and the brave souls who went in after them. We have also come to be ever mindful of the courage of those who grieve for them, and the light that still lives in their hearts. — Rudy Giuliani

When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, "I want you to emerge stronger from this." My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded. — Rudy Giuliani

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. — Rudy Giuliani

Six percent, 5 percent of our GDP for him [Vladimir Putin] to match us, he has to spend 25 percent of his GDP and it will bankrupt his country. — Rudy Giuliani

The city is going to survive, we are going to get through it, It's going to be very, very difficult time. I don't think we yet know the pain that we're going to feel when we find out who we lost, but the thing we have to focus on now is getting this city through this, and surviving and being stronger for it. — Rudy Giuliani

We are technologically ahead of Russia and China. We can develop a nuclear shield for the United States, for Poland, and for the Czech Republic. Russia is deadly frightened of that. They have been trying to get us to give that up for 20 years since [Ronald] Reagan. — Rudy Giuliani

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

And then in the FBI report it says that Hillary Clinton can't remember her exit interview from the FBI because of her concussion because she didn't have a memory. But she was acting as secretary of state at the time which means we had a secretary of state who was acting who doesn't have a memory of what she was doing. — 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

I took over a city that had two riots in four years and I had none. And they knew they couldn't riot on me. And when I saw the people on the street in New York City, I said to myself, you're breaking Giuliani's rules. You don't take my streets. You can have my sidewalks, but you don't take my streets, because ambulances have to get through there, fire trucks have to get through there. — Rudy Giuliani

I think her comments - Hillary's Clinton comments just don't get the same attention that Trump's do. For example, she lied to a Gold Star mother. She lied to pre - Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, who - who was killed at Benghazi, I believe, because of her incompetence, her incompetence in failing to secure that mission. — Rudy Giuliani

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. — Rudy Giuliani

I was surprised at how angry Hillary Clinton was last night.I don't know whether she's not - whether she's sick or she's not. I do know that there are 14, 15 videos of her that show her in very, very strange condition. I don't know what it is. — Rudy Giuliani

I know both Secretary [Hillary] Clinton and President [Barack] Obama were very gracious and I respect that a lot in the way they handled it the day after, two days after. But I wish they would says something about it too. Because after all, these are supporters of President Obama and Hillary Clinton and maybe they could say something about this. Really not the right thing in the democracy. — Rudy Giuliani

Compassion doesn't weaken leadership, it makes it stronger. — Rudy Giuliani

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. — Rudy Giuliani

If we build our military up to Ronald Reagan levels, [Vladimir] Putin's not going to push us anywhere because he can't match us. — Rudy Giuliani

I would ask [protesters] to please respect - I'd ask them to please respect the democratic process. — Rudy Giuliani

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

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

Donald Trump believes now that Barack Obama was born in the United States. But that issue was raised originally by Hillary Clinton's campaign. — Rudy Giuliani

No matter who you are, if you have a $30 operating loss, you can carry it forward to the next year. And poor people do take advantage of that, also. — Rudy Giuliani

I'm not paranoid,I just don't trust people. — Rudy Giuliani

All the same stuff that happened to [Bob] McDonnell , and McDonnell got prosecuted. And he [Tim Kaine] is sitting there free and - just like Hillary [Clinton]. — Rudy Giuliani

I've argued in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. I've argued in almost every circuit. And I tried, as a personal lawyer and U.S. attorney, over 50 cases. — Rudy Giuliani

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

I don't think anyone has campaigned much more than I have for Republican candidates, going back to 1998. I mean, I've been in 45 states on behalf of 200 candidates - all Republicans. — Rudy Giuliani

Donald Trump knows how to use leverage in negotiations. — Rudy Giuliani

As a lawyer, I hate to use the "on the one hand, but the other". — 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

I'm going to make a guess, not a definitive statement, I would think if you had to make a decision like that [ completed the e-mail investigation on Hillary Clinton], you'd give it - you'd give that to an independent counsel. You wouldn't make it as the appointee of the new president. — Rudy Giuliani

Great men have big failures. — Rudy Giuliani

Now [after election] where it goes into violence, I have a zero tolerance for riots. — Rudy Giuliani

I'm the only one of the republican candidates who's actually turned an economy around and turned it around with the with kind of pro-growth principles that we're talking about for America. — Rudy Giuliani

Maybe the Clinton chapter is over now. They've brought enough disgrace to America, the presidency, and the state department. They corrupted the Justice Department. — Rudy Giuliani

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. — Rudy Giuliani

One can look at John McCain and say that he's not ready to be commander-in-chief. — Rudy Giuliani

Let's talk about the next president being someone who would be prosecuted if she wasn't a Clinton, because I would have prosecuted her. And I have seen plenty of people prosecuted for much less, like Martha Stewart. — Rudy Giuliani

I do have to ask the following: I feel very bad about that [spate of incidents, racially-charged incidents, across the country ]. — Rudy Giuliani

My real issue is that the woman [Hillary Clinton] exposed thousands and thousands of classified documents, which, if I exposed one of them when I was in the Justice Department, they would have put me in jail. That's what I know. — Rudy Giuliani

[Donald Trump] can do it [build the wall] by executive order by just re-programming money within the within the Immigration Service. — Rudy Giuliani

We don't all agree on everything. I don't agree with myself on everything. — Rudy Giuliani

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one. — Rudy Giuliani

I was always responsible for everything in my campaign. — Rudy Giuliani

I think what Donald Trump is reflecting is - and I know the media always discounts this because you don't like to get criticized. But you don't treat us the same way that you treat Democrats. Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama , they get the benefit of the doubt. — Rudy Giuliani

The point is Hillary Clinton's campaign is the first one to ask about Barack Obama legitimity because all she does is engage in negative campaigning against Barack Obama and against Donald Trump. — Rudy Giuliani

Hillary Clinton's exposed more of our top secret documents than any Secretary of State in history. — Rudy Giuliani

If Donald Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity. — Rudy Giuliani

Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens. If you come here and you work hard and you happen to be in an undocumented status, you're one of the people who we want in this city. You're somebody that we want to protect, and we want you to get out from under what is often a life of being like a fugitive, which is really unfair. — Rudy Giuliani

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. — Rudy Giuliani

Life Lessons by Rudy Giuliani

1. Rudy Giuliani's work as an American politician demonstrates the importance of leadership, tenacity, and resilience in the face of adversity.
2. He was able to bring about positive change in the city of New York through his commitment to public service and his willingness to take on difficult challenges.
3. His career serves as an example of how dedication and hard work can lead to meaningful and lasting results.