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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. "

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" 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. "

Rudy Giuliani

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" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans. "

" Our safety requires a long-term military presence in the Middle East because that's where the plans to attack us are emanating. "

" 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. "

" You know Donald Trump will secure our borders. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader. "

" You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency. "

" 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

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" We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking, but you can't let them drive you completely. "

" 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 am open and will continue to be open to ways to limit abortion. What I am not open to is to removing the right. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When we faced a possibility here in New York of chemical and biological attack, three days after September 11, I called in all of the experts, academic experts, Nobel Prize laureates, and doctors who had dealt with anthrax, doctors who had dealt with various forms of chemical and biological attack. "

" 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. "

" The reality is even if you are a hands-on Mayor or Governor or chief executive, at best, you must know about 10 or 20% of what's going on. Otherwise, you never get through the day... I was very hands on, and there's lots of stuff I didn't know, and lots of things that either went wrong or right that I would find out about afterwards. "

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