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  • While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

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  • Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.

  • Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.

  • A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.

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

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

  • In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.

  • To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.

    "Spitzer to Step Down; Paterson to Step In". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris and Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2008.
  • The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.

  • I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

    "Spitzer Doesn't Deny Tie to Prostitution Ring". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Michele Norris, www.npr.org. March 10, 2008.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.

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  • Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

  • When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes.

    Interview with Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.
  • I don't like politicians who vacillate.

  • In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement.

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

    "How Wall Street Scams Counties Into Bankruptcy" by William D. Cohan, www.bloomberg.com. July 02, 2012.
  • In politics you learn to always smile.

  • My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.

    Interview with Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 12, 2009.
  • Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.

    Interview with Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2009.
  • The big lie out there, the big lie that the Republicans propagate day after day, is that cutting marginal rates for those at the top is going to create jobs. It's simply not true.

  • 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.

  • The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

  • Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

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

  • Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

  • Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.

  • I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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    Eliot Spitzer

    • Born: June 10, 1959
    • Occupation: Former Governor of New York