[cheers and applause] - rudy loved being mayor. it was the perfect job for him. he loved running things and managing things. - mayor of new york, they say, is the second hardest job in american politics. the new york city press corps? i mean, that is, like, a glaring spotlight the way it is when you sit in the oval office and you have the entire national and international press corps. i mean, it s only second to that. - he came in, and there was a huge budget deficit, which was over $2 billion. - our budget is painful but necessary medicine. - hundreds of millions of dollars less to the mta for subways and transit. health and hospitals, cut. everything is slashed. - he lived up to his campaign promises of trying to reduce the welfare rolls. - food stamp use, slashed. - rudy does have the instincts of a wartime general. he needs an adversary. he needs a fight.
- new yorkers have voted to unseat their city s first black mayor and replace him with a white republican. [crowd chanting] rudy, rudy, rudy, rudy! - yes, ladies and gentlemen, the mayor elect for the city of new york, rudolph william giuliani! - i m standing before you as the next mayor of new york city. [cheers and applause] - rudy loved being mayor. it was the perfect job for him. he loved running things and managing things. - mayor of new york, they say, is the second hardest job in american politics. the new york city press corps? i mean, that is, like, a glaring spotlight the way it is when you sit in the oval office and you have the entire national and international press corps. i mean, it s only second to that. - he came in, and there was a huge budget deficit,
and replace him with a white republican. [crowd chanting] rudy, rudy, rudy, rudy! - yes, ladies and gentlemen, the mayor elect for the city of new york, rudolph william giuliani! - i m standing before you as the next mayor of new york city. [cheers and applause] - rudy loved being mayor. it was the perfect job for him. he loved running things and managing things. - mayor of new york, they say, is the second hardest job in american politics. the new york city press corps? i mean, that is, like, a glaring spotlight the way it is when you sit in the oval office and you have the entire national and international press corps. i mean, it s only second to that. - he came in, and there was a huge budget deficit, which was over $2 billion. - our budget is painful but necessary medicine.
and in the end he won by 2.9. - new yorkers have voted to unseat their city s first black mayor and replace him with a white republican. [crowd chanting] rudy, rudy, rudy, rudy! - yes, ladies and gentlemen, the mayor elect for the city of new york, rudolph william giuliani! - i m standing before you as the next mayor of new york city. [cheers and applause] - rudy loved being mayor. it was the perfect job for him. he loved running things and managing things. - mayor of new york, they say, is the second hardest job in american politics. the new york city press corps? i mean, that is, like, a glaring spotlight the way it is when you sit in the oval office and you have the entire national and international press corps.