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Guiliani: 'Exce$$ive Focus'
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ABC News' Tahman Bradley Reports: In a speech before the Hoover Institution in Washington, D.C., former mayor Rudy Giuliani, R-N.Y., said that in the 1990's there was an "excessive focus" on the economy, and as president, he would focus on protecting the country from "the war the terrorists have against us."
Giuliani said a certain kind of "big government" that focuses on homeland security and defense is necessary in the global fight against terrorism.
Hoping to present himself as the man best able to help the Republican party redefine itself after a tough 2006 midterm election in which the GOP lost its house, senate and gubernatorial majorities, the former mayor, who is building an organization for a 2008 presidential run, said that the Republican Party needs to return to its core principal of expanding people's freedoms.
"We're not always right, we're not always on our game, we're not infallible by any mean," he said, "but the Republican party works best ... when we look to things where we empower people more."
Giuliani cited education as a area in which the government can allow people more freedom. He said he learned first hand as mayor of New York that school choice could be used to revise the public school system.
Parents should be making decisions about their children's education, not "educrats," he said. "I don't know why that isn't one of the great civil rights issues in this country."
The former mayor admitted that the U.S. needs to reform its healthcare system, but Giuliani said that the system overall should be kept in tact.
Giuliani rejected the notion of a single payer universal healthcare system, saying that that idea sounds like "socialized medicine."
"You do not want to take your healthcare system and make it like your public education system, do you?" he asked rhetorically.
Responding to a question about his lack of foreign policy experience, Giuliani joked, "What makes you think that the mayor of New York city doesn't need a foreign policy."
He added that over the last several years, he has talked to a lot of world leaders, and that foreign policy is "an area I know and I feel comfortable with."
Giuliani, who supports President Bush's troop surge in Iraq, expressed his opposition to the non-binding Iraq resolution passed in the U.S. House of Representatives stating opposition to the surge
"The non-binding resolution was a way to be safe, a way not to make a tough choice."
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