Best quotes by Eliot Spitzer on Government

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  • Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.
    - Eliot Spitzer
  • I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society; Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare; and remnants of the pro-business moderates.
    - Eliot Spitzer
  • I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.
    - Eliot Spitzer
  • I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current; writing; teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out.
    - Eliot Spitzer
  • 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.
    - Eliot Spitzer
  • 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.
    - Eliot Spitzer
  • Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.
    - Eliot Spitzer