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I don't like politicians who vacillate.

Eliot Spitzer

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Eliot Spitzer
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: June 10
Former Governor Of New York
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New York City
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The Sheriff of Wall Street
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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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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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Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.
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It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.
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I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.
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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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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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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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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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While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.
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I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.
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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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Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years.
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It's not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser.
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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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Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!
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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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