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The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Opportunity
Accelerate
Action
Carbon Emissions
Co2
Damage
Disappear
Emissions
Global Warming
Impact
Pace
Reverse
Tipping
Time Opportunity Will
Scale
Approaching
Beyond
Devastating
Global
Limited
Warming
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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 / Former Governor Of New York
Government
Approach
Capacity
Challenges
Engaging
Errors
Foreign Affairs
Human Capacity
Recognition
State Government
Power Government Must
Affairs
Error
Inform
Maxim
Reforming
Tempered
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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.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Barack
Inability
Overwhelming
President Barack Obama
Romney
Barack Obama
Matters
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Respects
Shown
Unquestioned
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From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much: the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
New York
People
Sorry
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From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Expected
Sorry
Love Trust Family
Deeply
Whom
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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.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Focal Point
Party
Principles
Tea
Tea Party
Actual
Candidate
Electoral
Organizing
Focal
Measures
Occupy
Principle
Squarely
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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 / Former Governor Of New York
Cherish
Cnn
Impact
Participation
Current
Policy Issues
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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.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Challenging The Status Quo
Desire
People
Size
Status Quo
Urgency
Face
Misunderstand
Problems
Push
Quickly
Quo
Settle
Slower
Status
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A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Sports
Antitrust
Enormous
Exemption
Granted
Law
Nfl
Owners
Significant
Wealth
Applicable
Garner
Leagues
Primarily
Revenues
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As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Competition
Enforcement
Fair Play
Play
Stronger
Fair
Guarantee
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When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Democratic
Doomed
Majority
Principles
Tolerance
Centuries
Dictatorships
Vast
Experiment
Fail
Ruled
Vast Majority
Viewed
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The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Closing
Ideology
Isolated
Mainstream
Middle
Moving
Needed
November
Party
Romney
Tea
Tea Party
Voters
Winning
Weeks
Campaign
Could
Often
Desperately
Him
Lesson
Linking
Loudest
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Rabid
Shake
Tried
Voices
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Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Deficit
Eras
Fairness
Higher
Investment
Levels
Long
Long Term
Proof
Reduction
Rhetoric
Wealthy
Tax
Deficit Reduction
Dictates
Marginal
Moreover
Notwithstanding
Rates
Revert
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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.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Contribution
Doomed
Economic
Elements
Embrace
Immigration
Insensitive
Party
Rhetoric
Romney
Sacrifice
Social
Theory
Additional
Harshly
Mitt
Primary
Rabid
Shrill
Sought
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I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Journalistic
Observers
Prove
Succeed
Time World View
Al
Al Jazeera
American Public
Objective
Outfit
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Let's create a regime that makes sale of bullets to anybody not licensed to carry a gun illegal, makes resale illegal, micro-stamps bullets so they can be traced. No Second Amendment issues here. This would have a remarkable impact on both violence and the capacity to solve shooting crimes.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Bullets
Capacity
Gun
Illegal
Impact
Remarkable
Second Amendment
Shooting
Amendment
Carry
Crimes
Licensed
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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.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Death
Best
Argument
Best Effort
Compelling
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Death Penalty
Despite
Justice
Persuasive
Winning
Most
Within
Against
Admit
Criminal
Day
Efforts
End Of The Day
Even
Fallible
Penalty
System
Though
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The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Approved
Ceilings
Congress
Debt
Debt Ceiling
Despite
Fallacy
Gop
Irresponsible
Political
Score
Spending
Additional
Ceiling
Encourages
Logically
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Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Country
Democratic
Democratic Process
Envy
Flawed
People
Pride
Wake Up
Everywhere
Virtually
Wake
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Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Jobs
Economist
Factors
Impact
Job Growth
Law
Numbers
Reasonable
Wages
Workers
Nearly
Intervene
Isolate
Multitude
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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 / Former Governor Of New York
Government
Gop
Groups
Medicare
Moderates
Party
Tea Party
Theological
Views
Warrior
Distinct
Rest
Impose
Straight
Tent
Warriors
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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.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Administration
Bounds
Premium
President Obama
Track
Track Record
Change Good Power
Agencies
Charge
Push
Right People
Split
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Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Adequate
Done
Endowment
Equity
Financial
Financial Services
Imagine
Management
Pension
Products
Skills
Companies
Demanded
Funds
Mortgages
Revisit
Services
Sold
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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.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Car
Coverage
Drivers
Gun
Irony
Liability
License
Risk
Show
Buy
Carry
Concerns
Downstream
Id
Insurance
Insurance Coverage
Owned
Provide
Rent
Tougher
Wagon
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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.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Claims
Pressure
Prosecutor
Tape
Witness
Years
Bear
Brought
Defendant
Exerted
False
Officer
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Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.'
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Jobs
Capitol
Capitol Hill
Congress
Country
Fraud
Main Street
Muppet
Preparing
Puppets
Return
Slam
Wall
Bill
Enact
Recovered
Wall Street
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Every trial lawyer knows what it is like to sit patiently while the other side puts on its case. Inevitably they make a few points that appeal to the jury, and waiting for the opportunity to respond can be painful. The desire to jump up immediately - to point out the flaws in logic or the factual distortions - is often overpowering.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Opportunity
Desire
Factual
Flaws
Logic
Overpowering
Painful
Waiting
Appeal
Side
Case
Respond
Few
Immediately
Inevitably
Jump
Patiently
Puts
Sit
Trial
Trial Lawyer
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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 / Former Governor Of New York
New York
Running
Application
Cities
Financial
New York City
Revenue
Sales Tax
Tax
Buy
Concept
Paying
Raise
Responsible Way
Sales
Sector
York
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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.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Parenting
Bad Behavior
Behavior
Financial
Hazards
Incentives
Moral
Moral Hazard
Said
Rules
Had
Acts
Again
Bad
Bailout
Bank
Banks
Own
Same
First
Created
Differently
Hazard
Incentive
Loans
Misfortune
Reward
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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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