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Originally Posted by methomps
That can't be a real quote.
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Don't know if you were joking -
but it was real ... NYT Speech transcript - it was a 1994 appearance at a forum about crime in the cities, sponsored by The New York Post.
'Freedom Is About Authority': Excerpts From Giuliani Speech on Crime
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We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. 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.
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bolded the original quote. Anyway, worth noting as Rudy does exeunt stage left so we won't be talking about the cross dressing 9/11 candidate much more.