I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.
Quote by Eliot Spitzer
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I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.
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Eliot Spitzer Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.
- I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.
- For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.
- Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
- Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.
- It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
- Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- My mother is a walking miracle.
- One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.
- When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
- Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
- The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
- Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
- I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
- Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
- Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.