AMERICA’S MAYOR
“Rudy Giuliani has been a great mayor, one of the truly great mayors of the city of New York. Maybe the best ever.” – Donald Trump

“Mayor Giuliani is the oligarch’s mayor.” – Ralph Nader

HE SAVED THE CITY
“I think you can pretty authoritatively make the claim that New York City is going into the next millennium, into the next century, stronger than it has been probably at any time during the century.”
– Rudy Giuliani

“I think that’s ultimately going to be the great failing and the great disappointment of this mayor. In a minority-majority city, a city of immigrants just don’t trust the mayor because he’s unable to put himself in their shoes.” – NYC Police Commissioner William Bratton

“It’s in the bloodstream of New Yorkers. And, apparently it’s now even in the bloodstream of Americans,this mythology that Rudy Giuliani single handedly, superhero, conquered crime in New York City.” – Wayne Barrett, Village Voice

THE BROKEN WINDOWS THEORY
“We’ve gotten rid of a lot of the aggressive panhandling and at the same time we’ve gotten the greatest decline in major crimes the city’s ever had. And these two things are connected…the Broken Windows theory.” -- Rudy Giuliani

“There’s no evidence that disorder and crime are linked. The very foundation of the Broken Windows theory, that disorder invites crime, has no standing in social science. There is not one shred of evidence.” -- Jeffrey Fagan, Columbia Law School

“I really believe the Broken Windows argument is right and that it’s been verified. But the goal was never to turn it into an arrest effort. I think the NYPD lost the high moral ground for a period…The New York story certainly alerted us, that is in a democratic society you cannot try and do it by terror because the citizens will pull back away from you and nullify your actions.”
-- Professor George Kelling, co-author of Fixing Broken Windows

ZERO TOLERANCE
“So Rudy Giuliani said ‘I’m getting these people off the streets’ and suddenly the idea was ‘gee, wait a minute, the police are not powerless. They actually can make the city orderly. We don’t have to live this way.’” -- Myron Magnet, Manhattan Institute

“One of the reasons there’s been a reduction in crime is because we prevent crime before it happens.” –NYC Police Commissioner Howard Safir

“The Mayor consciously set out to break the back of the NYPD, to make it subservient to him.”
– NYC Police Commissioner William Bratton

“You can’t have the policy of zero tolerance forever in society” – Sgt. Bruce Robertson, NYPD


RACE RELATIONS
“There’s something very deeply pathological about Rudy’s humanity. He was barren, completely emotionally barren on the issue of race.” -- NYC Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew

“I think that’s ultimately going to be the great failing and the great disappointment of this mayor. In a minority-majority city, a city of immigrants just don’t trust the mayor because he’s unable to put himself in their shoes.” – NYC Police Commissioner William Bratton

WORKFARE
“I think one of the things that in twenty years I’ll be remembered for as being a really great mayor is workfare. Is putting people back to work.” – Rudy Giuliani

“When students read history book they’re going to say I took a city of dependency and made it into a city of workers.” – Rudy Giuliani

“To brag about welfare’s down while people are literally barely being able to survive doesn’t make you a good mayor. It makes you a kook.” -- Reverend Al Sharpton

FREE SPEECH
“He uses the levers of power to punish any critic. He doesn’t have that right. That’s why the First
Amendment is so important and why I, on occasion, have referred to him as Pinochet, Caligula, maybe it’s a combination of the two.” – NYC Mayor Ed Koch

“Public funds should not be used to support sick demonstrations by people even if they call themselves artists.” -- Rudy Giuliani on Brooklyn Museum show Sensation

“The shortsighted and those who want to focus blame on the police maybe for their own personal inadequacies we’re never going to convince.” -- Mayor Giuliani on post-Diallo protestors