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

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" 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. "

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" You know Donald Trump will secure our borders. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you confront a problem you begin to solve it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in the history of this city. And I did it by having to use police officers in black areas where there was an astounding amount of crime. If that crime was in white areas, police officers would be in white areas. "

" 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. "

Police Officers

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" In an emergency, you rarely get one consistent piece of advice. You usually have two or three people with two or three different ideas. So you want to have your own set of thoughts. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've always tried to be honest when communicating with people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "