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Rudy Giuliani

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Rudy Giuliani is a prominent Republican figure known for his role as the Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He gained national recognition for his leadership during the September 11 attacks in 2001, where he was praised for his response and crisis management. Giuliani has also served as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he gained a reputation for his tough stance on organized crime and corruption. His political career has included various roles and he has remained a vocal figure in American politics, often engaging in public discourse on issues related to law and order.

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May 9, 2007

It would be OK to be repeal it. It would be OK, also, if a strict constructionist judge viewed it as precedent.

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May 9, 2007

They have to decide several things. Is that an acceptable position for them? There will be some that who say it isn't. And I'm at peace with that.

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May 9, 2007

I personally oppose it. I support a right of choice. Some people say that that's inconsistent. I really disagree with that.

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May 2, 2007

Since it is an issue of conscience, I would respect a woman's right to make a different choice.

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May 2, 2007

This is a very, very difficult issue of conscience for many, many people. In my case, I hate abortion. I would encourage someone to not take that option.

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May 2, 2007

I think George Bush will be remembered as going on the offense against terrorism, that that's how history would remember him.

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Apr 9, 2007

I would appear on his program again. Sure, I would. I think that -- I take him at his word. I take Don at his word that he understands the gravity of what he did.

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Apr 3, 2007

There are a lot of Republicans who are willing to look at the whole record and to take a look at, what can he do for us in terms of dealing with terrorism? What can he do for us in dealing with the economy? Is he going to be the fiscal…

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Apr 3, 2007

I'm in the same position now that I was 12 years ago when I ran for mayor or as mayor, which is personally opposed to abortion, don't like it, hate it, would advise that woman have an adoption rather than abortion. I'll help you find the…

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Apr 3, 2007

If it would deprive someone of a constitutional right, yes. I mean, if that's the status of the law, then I would. Yes.

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Apr 3, 2007

The only thing I ask you to do is look at my public record because there's a way in which you can test how the issues in my private life affect my performance in office.

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Apr 3, 2007

I took the city from the worst crime situation in the country to the safest large city in America. Took the city from the worst welfare situation in the country to the best welfare to work situation. Took the city from a deficit to a…

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Mar 21, 2007

This is a terrorist war against us. We've got to keep reminding ourselves of that. We have to keep reminding ourselves of the fact that they are in various parts of the world planning to come here and attack us or attack us overseas.

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Mar 11, 2007

And you achieve peace through strength and through having very, very strong objectives and not going back to the kind of defense that we played before September 11.

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Feb 18, 2007

Abortion is something I oppose, I don't like on a personal basis.

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Feb 13, 2007

It is critical to us that things get to the point in Iraq that we have some degree of stability and not the way they are now.

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Feb 13, 2007

You can never find a candidate you agree with 100 percent of the time.

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Feb 13, 2007

I am pro choice, yes. But I -- I'm also, as you know -- always have been -- against abortion, hate abortion, don't like it.

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Feb 13, 2007

Gays should be protected. I signed the domestic partnership law in New York.

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Feb 13, 2007

If elected, Mayor Giuliani would be the first Italian American president.

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Feb 13, 2007

I would remove Saddam Hussein again. I just hope we'd do it better and we'd do it in a different way.

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Feb 4, 2007

Rudy Giuliani took another step closer to running for president today.

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Feb 4, 2007

And today we just took another step toward, toward running for president.

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Feb 4, 2007

My record is a record of cutting taxes, reducing the size of government, significantly reducing crime, turning around welfare from welfare to work by hundreds of thousands of people. Essentially, what I think people would describe as a…

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