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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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• 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.

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  Gun, Car, Risk

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

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  Party, Views, Voice

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

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  Management, Behavior, Profit

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

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  Standards, Disappointed, Expected

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

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• I don't like politicians who vacillate.

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  Politician

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• The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

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  Home, Reality, Vivid

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• Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

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  Speak, Public Speaking, Streets

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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.

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  Skills, Done, Adequate

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• I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.

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  School, Thinking, Nuts

  Interview with Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

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• Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top.

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  Party, Sacrifice, Immigration

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• 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.

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  Smart, America, Voting

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• 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.

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  New York, Political, Arena

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• I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.

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  Strong, Thinking, Important

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• I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

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  Believe, World, Rooms

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• I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.

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  Bankers, Evolution, Investment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.

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  Running, New York, Cities

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• 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.

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  Understanding, Needs, Looks

  Interview with Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2009.

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• 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.

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  Errors, Government, Challenges

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Voice, Eight

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Lying, Cutting

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• From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much: the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.

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  New York, Sorry, People

  Eliot Spitzer’s resignation speech, cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com. March 12, 2008.

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• I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.

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  Reality, Metaphor

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