Rudy Giuliani Passes Along The Wisdom Of The Elders

Alex Balk
The Awl
Published in
1 min readJul 31, 2009

You may have already seen this video of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani telling the President of the United States to “shut up,” which will certainly make you nostalgic for the civil and direct tone he set during his time in office. More interesting to me is the “other lesson” he passes along here: “Shut up when a cop is asking you questions. You don’t insult him, you don’t scream. My father taught me that when I was very young.” Fair enough; the guy obviously knew what he was talking about.

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