And it’s a little – very humbling to think that running for president of the United States is – for a kid from Brooklyn, it’s quite a step.
Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
In choosing a president, we really don’t choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.
First thing you have to do is say to yourself what can I bring to it, what can I do and how can I make the country better? How can I improve it?
With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.
The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans.
I have no objection to the concept of domestic partnership.
You know, in the horror movie you kill the monster, and the hand re-emerges. And if you’re not looking, the hand grows back and then the monster’s there again. That cannot be allowed to happen.
I’m probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world.
It wouldn’t quite be fair to say September 11, like, made my career.
America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.
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.
Thank God we’re safe. What I anticipated on Sept. 11 was that we would be attacked many times between then and now, and we haven’t been.
So I think we’re, we’re, we’re as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different political spectrum.
I don’t think anyone has campaigned much more than I have for Republican candidates, going back to 1998. I mean, I’ve been in 45 states on behalf of 200 candidates – all Republicans.
It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.
Quit Iraq Study Group to avoid politicizing it.
There’s never any guarantee at war.
Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other.
It’s a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.