Said he's the only Republican candidate "who's actually turned around a government economy."
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton, Fla. >>Details
"We have more coal reserves in the United States than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia."
Rudy Giuliani on Friday, January 25th, 2008 in Boca Raton. >>Details
"Bill Clinton's peace dividend . . . cut the military 25 and 30 percent."
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a Republican debate in Boca Raton. >>Details
"He reformed welfare before others tried."
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
"And he’s the only candidate who will fight for a national catastrophe fund to reduce insurance rates."
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
"And delivered more tax relief than the other Republicans combined."
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
"We haven't built a refinery, I think, in 30 years."
Rudy Giuliani on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"Ronald Reagan did amnesty."
Rudy Giuliani on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"Bill Clinton cut the military drastically."
Rudy Giuliani on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"Iranian mullahs took American hostages and they held the American hostages for 444 days. ...The one hour in which they released them was the one hour in which Ronald Reagan was taking the Oath of Office …"
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details
"We reduced abortion. We increased adoptions by 135 percent."
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 in a debate in Johnston, Iowa >>Details
"He's (Romney) the one who said that he would be to the left of Teddy Kennedy on gay rights."
Rudy Giuliani on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in MSNBC's "Morning Joe" >>Details
"This guy didn't even support Ronald Reagan."
Rudy Giuliani on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in MSNBC's "Morning Joe" >>Details
"The oddest thing is he doesn't want to do for America what he did for Massachusetts. He did mandate health care for Massachusetts, which is HillaryCare, and he doesn't want to do that for America."
Rudy Giuliani on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in a Washington Post interview. >>Details
Romney failed to take action against "sanctuary cities" in Massachusetts.
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla. >>Details
"Murder went up" when Romney was governor. "Robbery went up. Violent crimes went up.”
Rudy Giuliani on Saturday, November 24th, 2007 in a newspaper interview. >>Details
"People were hopeless. Sixty percent of the population, 70 percent of the population wanted to live somewhere else. . . . By the time I left, 70 percent wanted to stay."
Rudy Giuliani on Friday, October 5th, 2007 in Washington, D.C. >>Details
"The $2.3-billion budget deficit I inherited when I came into office became a $2.9-billion surplus."
Rudy Giuliani on Sunday, July 1st, 2007 in “Innovators in Action” magazine >>Details
"I believe in tax cuts. I believe in being a supply-sider. I cut the income tax I think it was 24 percent. We got 42 percent more revenues."
Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in Dearborn, Mich. >>Details
"America never made up for the gutting of the intelligence services that Bill Clinton did. I think those are (former CIA director George) Tenet’s words ... that Bill Clinton gutted American intelligence."
Rudy Giuliani on Friday, November 2nd, 2007 in a television interview. >>Details
''The leading Democratic candidate once said that the unfettered free market is the most destructive force in modern America.''
Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in Dearborn, Mich. >>Details
“The Alternative Minimum Tax...was created by Congress in 1969 to affect 155 wealthy Americans. Because it was never indexed for inflation, those original 155 taxpayers has increased to affect about 3.5-million in 2006.”
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 in a newspaper column >>Details
“I had prostate cancer, five, six years ago. My chance of surviving prostate cancer, and thank God I was cured of it, in the United States, 82%. My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England, only 44% under socialized medicine.”
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 in >>Details
"Fifty-six percent decline in overall crime. A 73 percent decline in motor-vehicle theft. A 67 percent decline in robbery. A 66 percent decline in murder. This is way beyond what happened in the nation during this period of time.
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 in New York, N.Y. >>Details
Thompson "voted against $250,000 caps on damages (and) almost anything that would make our legal system fairer."
Rudy Giuliani on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla. >>Details
"I brought down crime more than anyone in this country -- maybe in the history of this country -- while I was mayor of New York City." -
Rudy Giuliani on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in a debate in Orlando, Fla. >>Details
"I cut taxes 23 times when I was mayor of New York City."
Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in a debate in Dearborn, Mich. >>Details
"When I was mayor of New York City, I encouraged adoptions. Adoptions went up 65-70 percent. Abortions went down 16 percent."
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, May 3rd, 2007 in >>Details
"I'm probably one of the four or five best-known Americans in the world.”
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 in a comment to reporters in London. >>Details
“What they will do is socialized medicine.”
Rudy Giuliani on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a comment to reporters in Tampa. >>Details
“The crime decline in the United States would be fairly small if it wasn’t for the crime decline in New York City.”
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 in New York. >>Details
“Democrats are kind of falling over each other seeing who can raise taxes faster. It looks like they’re going to raise taxes anywhere between 20 to 30 percent.”
Rudy Giuliani on Monday, July 30th, 2007 in a speech in Laconia, New Hampshire. >>Details
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