Eliot Spitzer Quotes

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

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

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

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

Delay is the enemy of progress.

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

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.

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.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

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

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.

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 do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

In politics you learn to always smile.

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

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.

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.

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.

The big lie out there, the big lie that the Republicans propagate day after day, is that cutting marginal rates for those at the top is going to create jobs. It's simply not true.

I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes.

To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.

It's not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser.

My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.

I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.

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.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

I don't like politicians who vacillate.