Eliot Spitzer Quotes - Page 3

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• Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.

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  Country, Pride, People

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• I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

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  Believe, Opportunity, Government

  "BUSINESSPERSON OF THE YEAR / ELIOT SPITZER / N.Y. attorney general ferrets out funds' abuses" by Pia Sarkar, www.sfgate.com. December 31, 2003.

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

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  Cutting, Careers, Wanted

  Interview with Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 12, 2009.

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• Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years.

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  Years, People, Done

  "BUSINESSPERSON OF THE YEAR / ELIOT SPITZER / N.Y. attorney general ferrets out funds' abuses" by Pia Sarkar, www.sfgate.com. December 31, 2003.

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

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  Apologizing, Sincerely, New Yorkers

  "Spitzer to Step Down; Paterson to Step In". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris and Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Sports, Law, Nfl

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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.

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  Parenting, Hazards, Moral Hazard

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• Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course.

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  People, Interesting, Doe

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• Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.'

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  Country, Jobs, Wall

  "Kill the JOBS Act!" by Eliot Spitzer, www.slate.com. March 19, 2012.

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• President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

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  Country, Offering, President

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• 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.

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  President, World, Calm

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• The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.

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  Party, Tea, Principles

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• 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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  Party, Moving, Winning

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• The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and the results have been a disaster.

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  Europe, Fans, World

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