Rudolph 9/11 Guiliani:

“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.”

[ Interruption by someone in the audience. ]

“You have free speech so I can be heard.”

Mr. Guiliani lives in a sensible world, where everyone obeys, people keep their heads down, and the policemen get armored vehicles! Because nothing says freedom like not having any, right Rudy (at least he believes in evolution though)? If you’re interested in more terrible quotes from the wonderful power hungry madman seeking office, checking Seminal’s 8 Awful Quotes from 2008 Candidates.

Thanks, by the way, to Gawker, for putting up our Thoughts of the Average American in their Blogorehea feature (we’d have it no other way!). For other hilarious exposes, check out Jon Stewart taking down Nancy Grace, ThinkProgress has Rep. Poe Quoting Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard On House Floor, and D.C. Call Girls Found ‘Shock and Awe’ Author, Mr. U., to Be ‘Unpleasant’.

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