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

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Rudy Giuliani

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New

City

" The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black. "

" 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. "

" I was very serious about being a priest, twice in my life. Almost joined the Montfort Seminary after I graduated from high school. Almost went back in the seminary during college. "

" I think the world is much better off without Saddam Hussein than with him. "

" 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 mother's 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. "

" 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. "

" You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity. "

" I get through difficult situations by looking at how other people have gone through them. I say to myself, 'If they can go through it, then I can.' Or, If they can go through worse, I can go through whatever I'm going through. "

" Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people. "

" My father taught me, in boxing, that when you - particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time - you're going to panic. That instead of panicking, just accept it. Stay calm. And any time anybody hits you, they always leave themselves open to be hit. "

Rudy Giuliani

Time

Calm

" Donald Trump is a leader. He will reassert America's position as the nation with the best values to lead the world. "

" I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the core of communism and socialism - is that you can have perfect solutions to social problems like poverty, like crime. You're not going to eliminate all crime. Maybe you'll never eliminate all poverty. "

" I was pretty successful before Sept. 11 and fully expected that when I left being mayor I would be very successful. "

" My attempt is to try to broaden the base of the Republican Party, to try to bring in people that can agree and that can disagree on that, because I think the issues that we face about terrorism, about our economy, about the growth of our economy are so important that we have to have the biggest outreach possible. "

" 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. "

" Republicans spend too much time on defense. We have to be on offense. We have to point out the truth. President Obama stole seven hundred million dollars from Medicare. Republicans want to preserve Medicare. Obamacare robs from Medicare. "

" With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign. "

" There is a reality to the primary process, and you don't win primaries by being ahead in national polls. You win them by winning Iowa, by winning New Hampshire, by winning South Carolina, winning Florida. "

" There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean, all these memories come back to you at different times. And then the other side of it this tremendous response with the firefighters and the police officers saving people, the rescue workers. "

" 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. "

" Every time New York City suffered a tragedy, Donald Trump was there to help. And he did it anonymously. "

" What did Sept. 11 do? It took me from 60-70 percent name recognition as mayor of New York to about 90 percent. Of course it had an impact. But it's not the only reason I was successful. "

Rudy Giuliani

Recognition

New York

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

" 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. "

" I'm not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he's a pragmatist. "

Rudy Giuliani

Hoping

Sure

" 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. "

" Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one. "

" We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society. "

" I think that taxes have to exist. They should exist at the lowest possible level, and to the extent that we can, we shouldn't invent more. Maybe that's my experience being mayor of New York City, where we had so many taxes. "