Eliot Spitzer Quotes
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As a citizen, and as the state's lawyer, 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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The only delay, ... is that when you are dealing with 50 states, 12 investment banks, a significant number of regulatory entities, simply getting sign-offs, drafting agreements on stray words takes a bit of time.
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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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These two officials basically had one job to do and that was to ensure that the weight of the jockeys was recorded accurately and then disclosed to bettors, ... Instead, they misled the public and compromised the integrity of races run by NYRA.
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Any doctor keeps a list of possible remedies available.
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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.
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Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.
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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.
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Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.
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What we demand is integrity and honesty of the research that is rendered.
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I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.
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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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I hope to continue the great tradition that you have created for us in this state of leadership in Albany.
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There will always be apologists for the powerful and politically connected who commit crimes.
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It's fascinating to me: when it comes to innovation in policy, it all comes from the states, ... It reflects an abject failure of policy (at the national level) in terms of dealing with energy, the environment or the securities industry. And into that void, the states have stepped.
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While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.
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Mutual funds, who have a fiduciary duty to shareholders, who have made the representation that they will do what's reasonable to stop these trades, and then they take payments for allowing these trades to take place -- they're in deep trouble.
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Who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.
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They may change their view but I will not at this point in time, ... We will win this case.
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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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In politics you learn to always smile.
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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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State law specifically prohibits possession of stun guns and related weapons, ... This agreement will help ensure that the Internet is not used to facilitate illegal activity.
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When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes.