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"Freedom"

Date: December 28, 2007

Ad Buy: Florida and New Hampshire

Script:

RUDY GIULIANI: Right before September 11, in months before, I had read this book about the "greatest generation," written by Tom Brokaw. And the book explains how brave and how persistent and how courageous the people were in the generation that won the second World War.

And during the day of September 11, living through the things that I saw and observed, immediately, when I saw people helping each other, I saw the picture of the firefighters putting the flag up, I said, "These are the children, the grandchildren and the great grandchildren of the greatest generation." They have the same resolve, the same understanding.

When you challenge Americans, there's no country that stands up stronger and better than the United States of America. When you try to take something away from us like freedom, my goodness, Americans are going to be one in resisting you. So the Islamic terrorists would make a terrible mistake, if they confuse our democracy for weakness.

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Our democracy means we disagree with each other. But when you come and try to take away from us our freedom, when you try to come here and kill our people, we're one and we're going to stand up to you and we're going to prevail.

RUDY GIULIANI: I'm Rudy Giuliani, and I approved this message.

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