Rudy Giuliani Quotes

Respect for law is fading from the sensibilities of our people. Twenty times as many people in proportion to the population are lawlessly killed in the United States as in Great Britain. There are fifty times as many robberies. Life and property are relatively more unsafe than in any civilized country in the world.

It seems to us that the rowdy class of New York has always been dealt with too tenderly. Their promiscuous stabbing affrays have come to be regarded too much in the light of a venial offense, attributable simply to a little harmless exuberance of the spirits, or, it might be, an extra glass of liquor.

Simply put, violent criminals break the law - any law - every day with impunity.

Crime and violence are a threat to the freedom and liberty people should enjoy and to our orderly way of life.

When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

The essence to reducing violent crime in our society is to take these people [criminals] off the street.

The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Our laws are too lax, our justice system too weak - particularly when it comes to violent, dangerous offenders.

Criminals know that if they stay under certain thresholds, nobody is going to come after them.

Too often, we see violent criminals return to the streets they have previously terrorized, only to commit more violent crimes.

Too many communities are living in fear as violent crime rises. So we need to reform our justice system to keep our streets safe and protect the law-abiding majority. That means putting an end to soft sentences and punishing offenders by keeping them behind bars so that the public can be protected and the offenders can be rehabilitated.

The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.

The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.

Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.

I think when you have Baltimore, which in the first night was practically wiped out or brought back 30 years. Because the police were instructed to stand down. You can't let that happen.

The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.

You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys.

Under what rubric of common sense would you release violent criminals who are illegal back onto the streets in America? Why would you not deport them? I mean, you have them. It's not like you have to go to the shadows and find these people. They are in your jail cell. They're in your prison cell.