Sayings of Generalissimo Giuliani
ISBN 9781566491631 (paperback)
Published in April 2000
“Freedom does not mean people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.”
-Rudy Giuliani, New York Post Forum, 3/20/94
Since taking over at City Hall with his take-no-prisoners, in-your-face, my-way-or-the-highway style, Mayor Rudy Giuliani has, some say, tamed a city long considered ungovernable. Today, as never before, New York City reflects the priorities, values, and agenda of one single man: Rudolph Giuliani.
But as Hizzoner prepares to attempt a great leap Washington-ward as New York's next U.S. Senator, more and mor people in the city and across the country are asking: what hath Giuliani wrought? And why have his methods become so increasingly tyrannical?
Sayings of Generalissimo Giuliani goes straight to the source for the answers. This is a collection of the most memorable, (unintentionally) hilarious and downright alarming statements that have come our of Giuliani's mouth from his days as a federal prosecutor right up to the Brooklyn Museum fiasco, his campaign to arrest the homeless, and other current headlines. Here we let Rudy be Rudy – and, in so doing, offer readers as up-close and personal a view of the man as they will ever want to see.
Kevin McAuliffe has had a long career in New York government and politics, and worked behind the scenes at City Hall as a speechwriter and press aide under New York's last three mayors, Ed Koch, David Dinkins, and (briefly) Rudy Giuliani. He is also the author of The Great American Newspaper (Scribner), a prize-winning history of the early years of the Village Voice.
Malachy McCourt is the author of A Monk Swimming.
-Rudy Giuliani, New York Post Forum, 3/20/94
Since taking over at City Hall with his take-no-prisoners, in-your-face, my-way-or-the-highway style, Mayor Rudy Giuliani has, some say, tamed a city long considered ungovernable. Today, as never before, New York City reflects the priorities, values, and agenda of one single man: Rudolph Giuliani.
But as Hizzoner prepares to attempt a great leap Washington-ward as New York's next U.S. Senator, more and mor people in the city and across the country are asking: what hath Giuliani wrought? And why have his methods become so increasingly tyrannical?
Sayings of Generalissimo Giuliani goes straight to the source for the answers. This is a collection of the most memorable, (unintentionally) hilarious and downright alarming statements that have come our of Giuliani's mouth from his days as a federal prosecutor right up to the Brooklyn Museum fiasco, his campaign to arrest the homeless, and other current headlines. Here we let Rudy be Rudy – and, in so doing, offer readers as up-close and personal a view of the man as they will ever want to see.
Kevin McAuliffe has had a long career in New York government and politics, and worked behind the scenes at City Hall as a speechwriter and press aide under New York's last three mayors, Ed Koch, David Dinkins, and (briefly) Rudy Giuliani. He is also the author of The Great American Newspaper (Scribner), a prize-winning history of the early years of the Village Voice.
Malachy McCourt is the author of A Monk Swimming.