Quotes by Rudy Giuliani

“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.”

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

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

“I know its hard to say this, but youve got to keep saying it, that is to relax and deal with it,”

“This is all about safety,”

“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,”

“a lot of progress.”

“I dont 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.”

“What I like to do on New Years 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,”

“Lets 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 lets keep it that way,”

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

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.

When youre in a crisis of, you know, tremendous proportions, its beyond any human capability to control, you just make the best decisions you can, and you just hope that your intuition is correct.

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 didnt know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it.

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.

As Americans, were not sure we share values. Were sometimes even afraid to use the word values. We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we cant. And they confuse that with teaching of religion.

Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And its a great demonstration of love. Its really what love is. Its finding areas in which other people are more important than you.

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.