Eliot Spitzer Quotes

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• I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society; Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare; and remnants of the pro-business moderates.

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  Party, Warrior, Government

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• Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

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  Writing, Mail

  "My golden rule". money.cnn.com. November 28, 2005.

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• Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

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  Winning, Best Effort, Justice

  "All Police Interrogations Should Be Tape-Recorded" by Eliot Spitzer, www.slate.com. October 08, 2012.

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• Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

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  Children, Global Warming, Natural

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• Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

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  Mean, Gun, People

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• After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.

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  Appreciation, Responsibility, Rights

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• It's not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser.

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  Brother, Internet, Free Speech

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• I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.

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  Motivational, Care, Credibility

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• One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

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  Lying, Competition, Likes

  "How Wall Street Scams Counties Into Bankruptcy" by William D. Cohan, www.bloomberg.com. July 02, 2012.

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• Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

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  Thinking, Sometimes, Turns

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• The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.

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  Opportunity, Impact, Carbon Emissions

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• In politics you learn to always smile.

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  Smile, Always Smile

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• As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.

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  Play, Competition, Stronger

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• A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

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  Years, Moments, Eternity

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• It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.

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  New York, Used, Used To Be

  "Spitzer at ‘Happy Ending’ Party". nypost.com. December 16, 2008.

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• I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

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  Running, Believe, Ideas

  "Spitzer Apologizes After Prostitution Case Surfaces". www.npr.org. March 10, 2008.

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• I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

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  Apologizing, I Apologize

  "'Straight Arrow' Governor 'Eliot Ness' Spitzer (?-NY)". www.newsbusters.org. March 10, 2008.

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• Delay is the enemy of progress.

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  Enemy Of Progress, Enemy, Progress

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• The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

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  Political, Ceilings, Debt

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• Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.

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  Jobs, Impact, Law

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• As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear.

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  Years, Tape, Pressure

  "All Police Interrogations Should Be Tape-Recorded". Article by Eliot Spitzer, www.slate.com. October 08, 2012.

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• Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.

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  Long, Levels, Eras

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• Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.

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  Government, Accomplishment, Reform

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• Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.

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  Safety, Leader, Imagine

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• It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

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  Medicine, Sound, Politics

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