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" Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit. "
Eliot Spitzer
Profit
Right
Behavior
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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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Law
" 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. "
Eliot Spitzer
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World
Disaster
" 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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Right
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Fairness
" My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be. "
Eliot Spitzer
Cut
Obviously
Than
" Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product. "
Eliot Spitzer
Cost
Product
Should
" 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. "
Eliot Spitzer
New York
Say
Immigrants
" While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party. "
Eliot Spitzer
Republican
Mine
Last
" 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. "
Eliot Spitzer
Women
America
Politics
" For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government. "
Eliot Spitzer
Government
More
Matter
" The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this. "
Eliot Spitzer
Change
Power
People
" 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. "
Eliot Spitzer
Manufacturing
Plants
Safety
" Delay is the enemy of progress. "
Eliot Spitzer
Progress
Enemy
Delay
" Let's create a regime that makes sale of bullets to anybody not licensed to carry a gun illegal, makes resale illegal, micro-stamps bullets so they can be traced. No Second Amendment issues here. This would have a remarkable impact on both violence and the capacity to solve shooting crimes. "
Eliot Spitzer
Create
Violence
Impact
" I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current; writing; teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out. "
Eliot Spitzer
Writing
Government
Impact
" In politics you learn to always smile. "
Eliot Spitzer
Always
You
Smile
" 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.' "
Eliot Spitzer
Street
Easy
Fraud
" 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. "
Eliot Spitzer
Loudest
Win
Closing
" When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world. "
Eliot Spitzer
Principles
Freedom
Tolerance
" Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government. "
Eliot Spitzer
Accomplishment
Health
Care
" It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. "
Eliot Spitzer
Good
Politics
Medicine
" 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. "
Eliot Spitzer
Winning
Justice
Best
" I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better. "
Eliot Spitzer
Sense
Wrong
Right
" 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. "
Eliot Spitzer
School
Trash
Speech
" Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong. "
Eliot Spitzer
You
Politics
Sometimes
" I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas. "
Eliot Spitzer
Believe
Run
Politics
" 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. "
Eliot Spitzer
Wake Up
Stand
Pride
" Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. "
Eliot Spitzer
Gun Control
Gun
Death
" I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that. "
Eliot Spitzer
Succeed
World
Time
" 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. "
Eliot Spitzer
Car
Irony
Gun
" 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. "
Eliot Spitzer
Power
Government
Challenge