Rudi Giuliani Quotations

The people who knocked these buildings down will hear from all of us soon.

We believe that everybody is out and that nobody is trapped in a train,

We're going to focus our efforts on recovering as many people as we can and on removing debris, which will take at least two or three weeks,

We believe we found the letter that explains the reason why the woman there was infected, and the original powder that was examined turned out to be negative,

We're going to help the people of Rockaway, ... They deserve it. They're very strong and good people. We're going to help the Dominican community. It's one of our strong and most important communities in the city. We're all going to pull together and we're going to be even stronger.

The fact is that both the police and the communities in New York are suffering from the same kind of group blame, group dynamic,

Make yourself calmer than you feel, force yourself to pretend you're calm and you'll be able to figure out how to get out of there if you remain calm. So I kept reminding myself of that. I was in charge, I was the person they were looking to and if I lost it they all would. I would have to say to myself, 'You've got to remain calm, you've got to stay focused.'

Make sure that you open the bottle yourself. And you actually hear it, and you hear the noise and the air coming out,

made it a rule ... rather than the exception.

Let's now make this kind of a permanent condition for New York City, that New York City is one of the safest large cities in America, and let's keep it that way,

send a very clear message that drinking and being a police officer is a very dangerous combination.

She was proximate to a mailroom, so you have to give that consideration,

She's trying to use it as a campaign issue. I'm trying to use it, as mayor of the city, to try to get balance,

Since they are advocating for a problem, if there are things that would make the problem disappear, sometimes unknowingly they continue to advocate and they don't embrace the things that would actually solve the problem,

Mayor John and I shared a common bond -- we were elected Republican mayors in a largely Democratic city,

My father, when I was very young, used to say to me, 'If you are ever in an emergency, if you are ever in a fire and everybody gets very excited, very emotional, then you become the calmest person in the room',

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.

Police officers risk their lives to protect me and my family. We can give them the benefit of the doubt,

Police officers on duty, or traveling back and forth to work, or traveling anywhere, shouldn't be drinking and getting behind the wheel of a car, and they shouldn't be drinking because they have a gun with them,

New York City has dealt with storms much, much worse than this, ... The snow doesn't mean anything to New Yorkers. We can handle the snow. We can handle anything.

I have got a lot of places to go and a lot of people to talk to and a long process of figuring out whether it makes sense to run for President in 2008. I don't know the answer to that yet.

I am a very strong person and my job means a great deal to me and that probably has gotten me through a lot of things. So, sure, this is very difficult.

I believe the people of the city of New York were selected as the people of the year, because of the very brave and heroic way in which they responded from the first moment to the worst attack on the United States ever in our history.

Certainly if I were to run, I would remind people of the fact that not only have I lived in the state of New York most of my life, but that I have worked in many of the communities in upstate New York,

I'm a human being; I have my limitations, ... I tried very hard to do this job 100 percent. I devoted myself to it.

I have a number of friends who died at the World Trade Center, so I feel personally involved in it, ... The mourning and grief and sorry that emanates from that attack is not over by any means, and maybe will never be over.

I firmly believe that to represent New York in the Senate you really need to have a great deal of knowledge about our state ... You have to love it -- and you have to have demonstrated that over a long period of time,

I don't want any money coming out of my pocket to pay for this kind of sick demonstration of clear psychological problems, ... This should happen in a psychiatric hospital, not in a (city-funded) museum.

We're obviously extremely disappointed that we haven't been able to recover anyone alive,

What I like to do on New Year's day is go to four or five or six places where people who are working for New York City are working, just to thank them,

We've got to go into an absolute new revolutionary era in the sharing of information,

It is important to see the contrast in approach between the two men: President Bush, a leader who is willing to stick with difficult decisions even as public opinion shifts; and John Kerry , whose record in elected office suggests a man who changes his position often, even on important issues.

I think they want real candidates who really tell people what they think, and are actually willing to lose rather than distort their position,

I think the Vietnam memorial captured in a brilliant way what needed to be captured about Vietnam, and to this day has stood the test of time, ... It has in a way captured the difficulty of Vietnam, the historical significance of it, the ordeal of it, and the individual sacrifice involved.

President Bush sees world terrorism for the evil that it is,

President Bush decided that we could no longer be just on defense against global terrorism, but we must also be on offense,

I think I'll return to politics. I have some political visions. I don't know what they are yet, they're a little foggy.

I would have to say to myself, 'You've got to remain calm, you've got to stay focused.'

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.

You learn a great deal when you come close and you do a good job but you lose an election, ... The campaign he's run this time is absolutely terrific, it's right on target.

You look at the promise that ethanol gives us. We'd want to look at what's the right way to do it. Do you do it with tax credits, do you do it with incentives, do you do it with subsidies? But we sure as heck want to jump-start that.

We don't know exactly what happened. The idea of an explosion is something we'll have to take a look at,

The contrasts are dramatic. They involve very different views of how to deal with terrorism. President Bush will make certain that we are combating terrorism at the source, beyond our shores, so we can reduce the risk of having to confront it in the streets of New York, ... John Kerry's record of inconsistent positions on combating terrorism gives us no confidence he'll pursue such a determined course.

You have less of a chance of being murdered, mugged, beaten or robbed here than just about any place in any large city in Texas.

The party is a big party. And I fit into the party real well over the last 10 to 15 years.

The part I will not tolerate is people violating the law, whether you are the mayor, a policeman, fireman or ordinary citizen. You don't get to punch New York City police officers, ... For that you go to jail.

There are indications that at least one of the people involved in this that was arrested was yesterday expressing support for what happened in Israel and was gratified that it had occurred,

The reason for that is that the armory is too small to deal with the number of people who have so far registered, ... So far we have 3,735 families who have registered. We expect there are going to be more.

This was done in a very tasteful way. It's an ad about a group of challenges the president has faced -- the recession, other things and September 11, 2001, ... You'd almost not be able to do the ad and talk about the challenges if you couldn't mention the truth.

We're going to try to return the city as much as possible to normal activity tomorrow, ... I don't think we can call it normal activity, but kind of approach it as much as possible.

We are still within that time frame, ... and the experts say there are still situations in which people have survived for this length of time.

Everyone should plan to come back to work tomorrow, ... The storm should be out of our area at 4 o'clock in the morning.

As the former mayor of New York City, I dealt with crime on a daily basis, I understand the need for true leadership,

At the core of the change is the commitment the Disney Co. made to Times Square two and a half years ago when the changes were not so apparent and the first question asked was 'How could you make an investment in Times Square?'

Did she say I can't get along with anybody?

There's nothing more beautiful than New York City in the snow,

It would have been a very bitter, difficult battle which probably would have resulted in his not being confirmed, if history is a guide,

I understand. I agree with his decision that he had to drop out,

I've also been mayor in a city that's five to one Democrats over Republicans. And I think I've been able to accomplish as much as any other mayor in the city, some people believe a lot more,

St. Paul's Chapel stands -- without so much as a broken window, ... little miracle.

degree of restraint ... unmatched in the country

area we haven't made the change we should be making.

Anything that happens in any part of the country can happen in New York,

Any help that he needs. This is a very important election. If he wants me to do a commercial for him, I'll do a commercial for him. And if he wants me to do one for his opponent, I'll do one for his opponent. If that helps more, you never know!

As long as George Bush is president, is there any doubt they will continue to hear from us?

that permits sharing of information between the FBI and state and local authorities.

This is hallowed ground, sacred ground, ... We decided to put up these platforms because there's been so much of an interest in seeing this site.

This is an orchestrated political response and an attempt to gain as much political mileage out of this shooting as they possibly can get,

This is a business. People get paid to take other people's garbage. If they take the garbage, they get a lot of money for it. If they don't want the garbage or the money, that's fine.

They treated him in a very, very strict way, which is the way we treat everybody alleged to be involved with drunk driving.

They got it done much quicker and more effectively than anyone had a right to expect,

It's too far to tell just yet on that. But, I will consider that next year.

It's the only way to recapture the worst day in the history of our city - and the best day in the history of our city,

It may look like the worst is over, and in many ways it is, but the roads will be very slippery and very dangerous, particularly during the night,

Concorde's return is symbolic of how all New Yorkers feel about rebuilding this great city. I am personally proud to welcome Concorde back to New York.

It's much easier to deal with this on a Saturday, particularly when you have a Saturday, Sunday and Monday to get ready for Tuesday.

It's very hard not to feel very sad, ... Peter was an exceptional New Yorker.

I want to say that I was very humbled and very moved by the selection by Time magazine,

I know that this is a very painful and difficult process, ... We just have to begin this process, and we thought the best way to do it is to just leave it up to the families.

If people had stayed in their apartments, we might have come away without serious injuries,

If you know that your husband or father or relative was working there, and you've come to terms with the idea that they're dead and they're not going to be recovered, then you can make the choice -- and it's your choice -- to apply for the death certificate,

I'll tell you his record -- attempted robbery, robbery, assault, disorderly conduct, sale of drugs, and punching someone during a transaction involving the sale of drugs,

I know it's hard to say this, but you've got to keep saying it, that is to relax and deal with it,

I didn't say, 'You should take it,' ... I said, 'If you want to do business with us, we're willing to do business with you.'

The lieutenant governor and the governor called me, and so it developed into a fund-raiser,

All it's going to do to the New Year's Eve celebration is make it more special, ... The snow should end by the end of the day (Saturday) so we can clean it up, and New York City will look even more beautiful.

The crowds are going to be more than enough to present a challenge for the police and everybody else, and Muhammad Ali will be participating in bringing down the ball, which makes it a truly unique occasion,

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.