Rudy Giuliani Quotes

Donald Trump believes now that Barack Obama was born in the United States. But that issue was raised originally by Hillary Clinton's campaign.

I would ask [protesters] to please respect - I'd ask them to please respect the democratic process.

The blue states we were able to turn red and basically haven't been red since Ronald Reagan. I think ObamaCare was the bigger hit.

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.

I remember a case where I was associate attorney general where 720 dead people voted in Chicago in the 1982 election. I remember in my own election about 60 dead people voted. So I can't sit here and tell you that they don't cheat.

If you don't find a way to do something as work that is fulfilling and enjoyable, then your life is going to be really sad.

In America, we do cheat. We have people who cheat in elections.

We had no domestic attacks under Bush.

Let's talk about the next president being someone who would be prosecuted if she wasn't a Clinton, because I would have prosecuted her. And I have seen plenty of people prosecuted for much less, like Martha Stewart.

I certainly have the energy, and there's probably nobody that knows the Justice Department better than me.

Life needs penalties and rewards for people. You can't control people with only penalties. You have to think how to create rewards.

We have a lot of precedence for that; we've done that in the past. Or maybe that you want to sort of put that behind you. I don't know, that's - that's a tough decision [ seeking a special prosecutor for Hillary Clinton].

Now, do I think the tax code should be simplified? Absolutely. Will Donald Trump do away with things like this? He probably is better positioned than anyone to figure out how to do away with it, because he understands the tax code better than anyone else.

She [Hillary Clinton] was extremely careless with handling national security information.If she were just an ordinary person, she would be denied a top security clearance because she has proved in her past acts that she is extremely careless in handling national security information.

This guy [Donald Trump] is not going to get pushed around.

I've never ever attacked someone who's been the victim who's been the victim of sexual abuse. Not only that, I've put people in jail who've been the victim of sexual abuse.

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.

When you look at the New York Times and you pick it up in the morning, at the top of the paper there's three stories that are anti-Trump. Some of them baseless, some of them silly. And at the bottom you get something about WikiLeaks. Same thing with The Washington Post. Way out of control.

I think abortion is something that, as a personal matter, I would advise somebody against.

I don't feel like I'm running against them, I feel like I'm running to try to show the American people what I can do and what I can accomplish.

I'd rather have a genius like Donald Trump running America than someone like Hillary Clinton.

I think that sometimes the most intelligent things that prosecutors do is when they exercise their discretion not to go forward with a case.

I have seen her [Hillary Clinton] in several other situations where she didn't look healthy.

Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens. If you come here and you work hard and you happen to be in an undocumented status, you're one of the people who we want in this city. You're somebody that we want to protect, and we want you to get out from under what is often a life of being like a fugitive, which is really unfair.

When I ran for mayor of New York City, the first time, some people voted eight and ten times. And second time I had firefighters and police officers outside checking on the buses so we take down the number of the bus, the bus had voted ten times, and wouldn't let the bus vote again.

And if you have a law that isn't working, and you have thousands and thousands and millions of people, then the terrorists hide among them. And we have to have a law that makes sense.

Compassion doesn't weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.

I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.

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.

Many reasonable prosecutors have come to the conclusion that they would have brought such a case that Hillary Clinton was extremely careless in the handling of national security information. I would have brought such a case and I would have won such a case. And I've prosecuted cases like that in my years in the Justice Department.

If Donald Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.

I think that's one of the major overriding issues of the day, to deal with frivolous lawsuits. I think it creates a tremendous burden on our economy, a tremendous burden on health care, it creates all of this medicine, which is good medicine. It would be one of the most important things we could do. It, also would help the economy. A tremendous amount of money is taken out of our economy and a tremendous that is created by these frivolous lawsuits.

I lived through crises. September 11 is obviously the biggest one that I've lived through.

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.

If we take back the labor unions, the legitimate businesses, eventually they become just another street gang. Spiritually, psychologically, they've always been just a street gang.

Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honorable title of citizen of New York, and citizen of the United States.

I lowered taxes in New York. I reduced the size of government in New York. I took a $2.4 billion deficit and turned it into a $3.2 billion surplus. And I reduced taxes over 23 times or 23 times.

People die when you crowd the streets of New York City with protesters. You can do plenty of protesting on the sidewalk.

We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear ultimately. And I don't think we want to speculate on the number of casualties. The effort now has to be to save as many people as possible.

...if I can do it, it's not art.

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

Disagrees with neocon adviser on immediate need to bomb Iran.

Quit Iraq Study Group to avoid politicizing it.

I'm probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world.

You want to do tax reductions, you want to do permanent tax reduction, reductions in spending. You've got to go out and explain it to the people, get them on your side and have them become the levers that you need in congressional relations.

In 2012 President Obama didn't go anywhere near African-American communities. Why? Because unemployment was so high there, he didn't want to address it.