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We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.

You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent.

I am a free market Republican. I am against subsidies, in most cases.

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.

I am open and will continue to be open to ways to limit abortion. What I am not open to is to removing the right.

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

It wouldn't quite be fair to say September 11, like, made my career.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

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.

The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life.

God help this country if we're now prepared to vote for someone we don't trust. But every election cycle we do things we never dreamed of.

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

Disagrees with neocon adviser on immediate need to bomb Iran.

Being mayor of New York was a crisis a week and an emergency every other day.

You know Donald Trump will secure our borders.

I have known Donald Trump for almost 30 years. And he has created and accomplished great things. But beyond that, this is a man with a big heart.

I'm not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he's a pragmatist.

The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future.

St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle.

The most visible symbol in New York is the spirit of a free people.

I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers.

I'm pro-choice. I'm pro-gay rights.

No time limit in Iraq; stay until we achieve stability.

The number of casualties will be more than most of us can bear.

My major focus is national security because that's really what the president runs.

If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists.

Life needs penalties and rewards for people. You can't control people with only penalties. You have to think how to create rewards.

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.

The sky's the limit for all Americans if we have the right kind of leadership.

I was pretty successful before Sept. 11 and fully expected that when I left being mayor I would be very successful.

I'm probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world.

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 United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency.

Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

We had no domestic attacks under Bush,

In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

A leader must not let critics set the agenda.

Donald Trump will make sure that any agreement with Iran meets the original goals of the U.N and our allies: a non-nuclear Iran.

The thoughts I express, whether clearly or ambiguously, are my own and they are my individual responsibility.

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.

I've never seen a guy change his position so many times, so fast, on a dime.

Our safety requires a long-term military presence in the Middle East because that's where the plans to attack us are emanating.

The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black.

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

If I can do it, it's not art.

Didn't vet Bernard Kerik sufficiently for DHS recommendation.

I think the world is much better off without Saddam Hussein than with him.

Did business with Qatar, a US ally which protects al-Qaeda.

I've campaigned many, many times together with Senator McCain. He's campaigned for me; I've campaigned for him, good friend.

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.

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?

I think that sometimes the most intelligent things that prosecutors do is when they exercise their discretion not to go forward with a case.

I have no objection to the concept of domestic partnership.

Not from my point of view ... [Clinton] want[s] to move toward mandated government medicine, socialized medicine.

The house in Chappaqua is up for sale, ... and you can get it for a bargain on Wednesday.

Every time New York City suffered a tragedy, Donald Trump was there to help. And he did it anonymously.

I don't feel like I'm running against them, I feel like I'm running to try to show the American people what I can do and what I can accomplish.

I lived through crises. September 11 is obviously the biggest one that I've lived through.

It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.

I want the people of New York to be an example to the rest of the country, and the rest of the world, that terrorism can't stop us.

More trade with Qatar & emirates is good against terrorism.

You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used to from a president.

I'm not paranoid,I just don't trust people.

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

Compassion doesn't weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.

Quit Iraq Study Group to avoid politicizing it.

The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified.

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.

What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan ... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.

In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.

I think abortion is something that, as a personal matter, I would advise somebody against.

One can look at John McCain and say that he's not ready to be commander-in-chief.

Donald Trump is a leader. He will reassert America's position as the nation with the best values to lead the world.

Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honorable title of citizen of New York, and citizen of the United States.

Keep pressure on Iran, because pressure works.

Chief Justice Roberts is somebody I work with, somebody I admire, Justice Alito someone I knew when he was U.S. attorney, also admire.

I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.

The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare.

There's never any guarantee at war.

To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.

The Republican Party would be well advised to get the heck out of people's bedrooms.

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.

You have to be willing - you have strong ideas, you have strong views, but you have to be willing also to look at experience.

I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.