Eliot Spitzer Quotes
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My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.
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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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Delay is the enemy of progress.
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Proponents cleverly wrapped the word reform around the amendment, ... But calling a mule a thoroughbred doesn't make it one.
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The directors are supposed to be the stewards of their shareholders' investments, but too often act at the behest of the advisory and management companies that run the funds' day-to-day operations.
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I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.
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I believe my office's efforts to educate the public are having a positive effect. We are seeing a larger percentage of charitable donations raised going to support charitable programs.
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No one can dispute that in the insurance industry there was massive fraud,
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I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes.
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We have received a complaint and we're reviewing it.
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I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.
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With this case, we hope to set a new standard for Internet marketers and consumer research companies. Personal information secured through a promise of confidentiality must always remain confidential.
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We would not permit this type of conduct in connection with the sale of cars or washing machines. It is simply unconscionable that it occurred with a critical medical device.
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The wise decision by President Obama to grant some undocumented immigrants the right to remain in the United States for two years without the threat of deportation is already benefitting the country.
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Not a word has come out of the White House about maybe there being a structural problem in the insurance industry.
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Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.
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Late-day trading is like being permitted to bet on yesterday's horse races, ... You already know who's going to win.
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The great advantage of the Internet is that it helps consumers compare products and prices, ... Our action in this case helps ensure that consumers will have the ability to do just that.
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Federated worked with regulators to address problems with improper trading.
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There has been a decline in ethics and we've got to turn it around.
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New York needs open access to emergency contraception.
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I don't like politicians who vacillate.
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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.
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Warner Music has illegally provided radio stations with financial benefits to obtain airplay and boost the chart position of its songs, ... abandon the industry-wide practice of providing radio stations and their employees with financial incentives and promotional items in exchange for airplay.