Rudy Giuliani Quotes

Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision.

As mayor, I'm charged with a big-picture agenda.

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.

The success of an elected official is doing what everyone knows needs to be done.

I started my career as an urban planner, working for the city, doing what I would call 'do-gooder' things, particularly for low-income neighborhoods.

The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.

From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission.

It's my job as governor to set a vision.

I like to use the analogy of going to the gym. If you go to the gym and your goal is, 'I want to look just like David Beckham,' then that drives you to do certain things. You may never look like Beckham, but it is a goal. Cities need the same thing. They need a vision and a plan for their ideal physique.

As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.

It's easier to run for office than to run the office.

I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.

I strongly believe being mayor is the public post in which you have the greatest opportunity to change peoples' lives for the better. People live in cities, not states or nations. As a mayor, you are connected directly to citizens.

I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.

I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.

I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

I care about making New York better.

Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.

Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching.

I am extremely proud to have the honour and privilege to be the Premier of this great state of Victoria.