Rudy Giuliani Quotes

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.

Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

I don't expect people to agree with all my votes.

You have so often been right that it is perfectly possible that I am wrong…

President Bush should learn to focus on the shades of grey

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure that it is right

I know Eric Schmidt, and he has different political views from mine. But I think he's a terrific guy.

I'm conservative on some things, and I'm not on others.

It may feel good to think you're right. But it's better to allow the possibility that you're wrong.

I have never been 100% confident that I am right about anything.

I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.

Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hope questions itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often. Like when a bumblebee flies or an ancient regime is toppled.

My father was very political. But he told me, "Be very careful when you get into politics, because there's no black and white. There's an in-between in everything. So look at that side, don't take one point, because then you are negating half of the other people. Try to find the logic on a problem, something that you believe, and take the position that you believe, but be very careful about it." So I was very well trained in that aspect.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.

I really am opinionated, but not for long. I have found myself coming off of what I think of something because the guy I'm talking to makes better sense than I am. I have so many points of view, I can't keep track of 'em, because I talk to too many people... I'm not so opinionated that I won't budge.

My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'