Rudy Giuliani Expects A Decision Next Year On A Presidential Run

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani told an international business forum Wednesday he would probably decide next year whether to run for the presidency of the United States. Rudolph GiulianiGiuliani, the two-term Republican mayor who was widely lauded for his leadership following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, said it would be premature to decide whether to run now. Asked at the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Sydney when he would become U.S. 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. “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,” Giuliani told the conference. “That happens more effectively in business than it does in government,” he said. He advised fellow chief executives to evaluate their companies’ security after the Sept. 11 attacks and warned against a course of living in hope that terrorists would not attack again.