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Giuliani to run for president?
31/08/2005 12:50 - (SA)
Sydney - Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani told an international business forum on Wednesday he would probably decide next year whether to run for the presidency of the United States.
Giuliani, the two-term Republican mayor who became Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2001 for his leadership following the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, said it would be premature to decide now whether to run.
Asked at the Forbes Global CEO conference in Sydney when he would become US president, Giuliani replied; "I don't know that answer."
"I don't know whether I'm going to run yet, which is something I probably won't decide until next year and then, of course, nobody knows the answer to that until after people vote," he said.
A big decision
"It's a very, very big decision and it's a little bit premature to make it," he added.
Giuliani, chief executive officer of business consultants Giuliani Partners, said government should be run more like a business.
"I think governments should be run much more like business where you set standards, you set goals, you have benchmarks and you evaluate performance," said Giuliani.
"That happens more effectively in business than it does in government," he added.
He advised fellow chief executives to evaluate their companies' security after the September 11 attacks and warned against a course of living in hope that terrorists would not attack again.
"We don't live in a new world; the world's been the way it is for about 30 years," Giuliani said. "We're on notice that it's a new world now since September 11."
- AP
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