Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giulianiis an American lawyer, businessman, former politician, and public speaker from New York...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 May 1944
CountryUnited States of America
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understanding the difficulties and split-second decisions that police officers have to make during the performance of their duties.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent. You don't even agree with me 100 percent.
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To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.
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The whole notion that police officers won't cooperate, this blue wall of silence thing -- the police commissioner and I challenged the police officers to break that silence, ... And one police officer -- a police officer, not a civilian -- came forward and courageously gave the district attorney the information that really has helped to pull this case together.
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Emergencies, by their very nature, are impossible situations to handle,
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The thing to worry about the most -- it would be the rush hour,
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At this point there are several competing hypotheses for his illness, ... In other words, West Nile is not the only possibility.
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John was a very good friend ... a great guy, a patriotic American, ... Our hearts and sympathy and condolences go out to his family.
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The prayers are for the people missing, the people who have died, and for America and for everyone that survived,
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I don't know what I'm going to be doing in 2008, ... I wasn't planning when I was associate attorney general or U.S. attorney (in the 1980s) to run for mayor. It all came gradually much closer to the time that I did it.