Quotes by Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Spitzer

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.

Appreciation

Responsibility

Rights

Any reasonable economist will tell you that it’s nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state’s job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.

Impact

Jobs

Law

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.

Pressure

Tape

Years

As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play – and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.

Competition

Play

Stronger

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.

Hazards

Moral Hazard

Parenting

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.

New York

People

Sorry

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children’s future. It is clear we must act.

Children

Global Warming

Natural

Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration’s first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.

Accomplishment

Government

Reform

I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

Apologizing

I Apologize

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.

Believe

Rooms

World

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Accomplishment

Always Smile

Apologizing

Appreciation

Arena

Bankers

Behavior

Believe

Best Effort

Brother

Car

Care

Challenges

Children

Cities

Competition

Country

Credibility

Disappointed

Doe

Done

Errors

Europe

Evolution

Expected

Fans

Free Speech

Global Warming

Government

Gun

Hazards

Home

I Apologize

Ideas

Imagine

Immigration

Impact

Interesting

Internet

Investment

Jobs

Justice

Law

Leader

Likes

Looks

Lying

Mail

Management

Moments

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Quotes by Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Spitzer

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.

As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play – and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.

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.

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children’s future. It is clear we must act.

Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration’s first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.

I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

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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