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Eliot Spitzer Biography

Eliot Laurence Spitzer (born June 10, 1959) is a retired American politician, attorney, and college professor. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 54th Governor of New York from 2007 until 2008.

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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.

Bear, Brought, Pressure, Protect, Tape, Years

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.

Additional, Agenda, Immigration, Mitt, Party, Sacrifice

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.

Back, Cities, Financial, New York, Running, Solve

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

Children, Clear, Economy, Global Warming, Health, Threatens

Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense. ' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.

Look, Looks, Needs, Say, Understanding

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.

Important, Mitt, Qualities, Romney, Strong, Thinking

Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years.

Alliance, Done, People, Years

I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.

Bloomberg, Greatest, Nuts, School, Thinking

I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.

Bankers, Evolution, Investment, Particular, Thought

The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.

Electoral, Measures, Organizing, Party, Principles, Tea

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.

Car, Concerns, Gun, License, Owned, Risk

I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.

Care, Credibility, Motivation, Motivational

The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

Home, Reality, Vivid, Confronting

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

Public, Public Speaking, Speak, Speaking, Street, Streets

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Behavior, Management, Profit, Pursues, Right

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

Gun, Instrument, Mean, People, Trigger

While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

Current, Fiscal, Moderates, Party, Views, Voice

In politics you learn to always smile.

Always Smile, Learn, Politics, Smile

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.

Best Effort, Compelling, Criminal, Efforts, Justice, Winning

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.

Bailout, Banks, Behavior, Hazards, Moral Hazard, Parenting

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