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In politics you learn to always smile.

Eliot Spitzer

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Eliot Spitzer
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: June 10
Former Governor Of New York
Lawyer
Politician
New York City
New York
The Sheriff of Wall Street
Learn
Always
Smile
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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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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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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When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes.
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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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My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.
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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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Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.
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Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!
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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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It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
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I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.
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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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I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.
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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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I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.
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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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Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.
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I don't like politicians who vacillate.
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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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