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" 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
Mayor
Fans
Hate
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" It's time to make America safe again. It's time to make America one again. I know it can be done because I did it by changing New York City from 'the crime capital of America' to - according to the FBI - the safest large city in America. What I did for New York City, Donald Trump will do for America. "
Rudy Giuliani
City
New
America
" Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society. If I had put all of my police officers on Park Avenue and none in Harlem, thousands and thousands more blacks would've been killed during the eight years that I was mayor. "
Rudy Giuliani
Police
Police Officers
Group
" Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America. If they don't do that, it's very hard to hold us together as a country, because it's shared values that hold us together. "
Rudy Giuliani
Train
Together
America
" 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. "
Rudy Giuliani
Mother
Family
Father
" The only time the private parts of someone's life are relevant is when they're affecting public performance. And just because someone is a public person doesn't mean that any part of his or her private life is open to scrutiny. If someone is doing his or her job, you have to have enough empathy to understand that we all have personal problems. "
Rudy Giuliani
Time
Empathy
Job
" I think the world is much better off without Saddam Hussein than with him. "
Rudy Giuliani
Without
Think
Off
" I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships. "
Rudy Giuliani
Great
New York
City
" 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
America
Three
Design
" 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
Stick
Strong
Great
" It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime. "
Rudy Giuliani
Law
Time
Crime
" Every time New York City suffered a tragedy, Donald Trump was there to help. And he did it anonymously. "
Rudy Giuliani
New
New York
Time
" You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent. "
Rudy Giuliani
Agree
Candidate
Myself
" The most important lesson my dad taught me was how to manage fear. Early on, he taught me that in a time of emergency, you've got to become deliberately calm. "
Rudy Giuliani
Calm
Early
You
" 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. "
Rudy Giuliani
New
Winning
Reality
" 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. "
Rudy Giuliani
Freedom
Want
People
" Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy. "
Rudy Giuliani
Hope
Strategy
Change
" The worst situation with radiation escaping is if you are downwind from it. You could virtually be on one side and not affected by the radiation. If you're on the other side and you're downwind from it, you are going to be affected. "
Rudy Giuliani
You
Worst
Situation
" 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. "
Rudy Giuliani
Think
New
Experience
" I was the person, I think, who first said the evening of September 11 that we shouldn't hold this against the Arab community, the Muslim community. We should focus on the individuals and that groups that were involved and not participate in group blame. "
Rudy Giuliani
Evening
Think
Blame
" We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society. "
Rudy Giuliani
Society
Our
People
" We need to know who's in the United States. We need to know everyone who's in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren't. To accomplish that, we need a fence. We need a technological fence. We need a border patrol. "
Rudy Giuliani
Country
Accomplish
Know
" What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down. "
Rudy Giuliani
Great
Down
Optimism
" To defeat Islamic extremist terrorism, we must put them on defense. If they are at war against us - which they have declared - we must commit ourselves to unconditional victory against them. "
Rudy Giuliani
Defeat
Against
Victory
" 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
Freedom
Want
World
" Putting pressure on grand juries to indict in my view is un-American. A grand jury should be allowed to be fair and impartial. They shouldn't have people yelling and screaming. "
Rudy Giuliani
Fair
Pressure
Jury
" In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader. "
Rudy Giuliani
Leader
Conservative
Republican
" The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency. "
Rudy Giuliani
Cuba
Russia
Transparency
" My view of Sarah Palin is she is the most dynamic figure maybe in politics, even more in some ways than President Obama, who is a little more scripted than she is. He is great with the teleprompter. "
Rudy Giuliani
She
Great
Politics
" In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future. "
Rudy Giuliani
Future
Running
Mate
" 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
Me
Recognition
New York