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Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!
Eliot Spitzer
Myself
Speak
Public
Speaking
Public Speaking
Street
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
Love
Faith
Family
Me
Trust
People
Sorry
Live
State
Those
Given
Lead
New
Am
Been
Up
Expected
Did
York
New York
Much
Whom
Deeply
Chance
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.
Eliot Spitzer
Sad
Time
Angry
World
Calm
Nation
President
Our
Pentagon
Attacks
Around
Trade
Were
Impressive
Frightened
Shook
American
Center
Certitude
Who
Deeply
World Trade
World Trade Center
Core
Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.
Eliot Spitzer
Politics
You
Sometimes
Seen
Think
Out
Wrong
Turns
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
Love
Government
Writing
Will
Out
Impact
Participation
Policy
Sort
Policy Issues
Always
Cherish
Go
Issues
Years
Trying
Current
Where
Loved
Next
Teaching
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
Future
Political
Argument
Congress
Additional
Despite
Spending
Approved
Has-Been
Logically
Able
Points
GOP
Fallacy
Been
Score
Encourages
Ceiling
Debt
Debt Ceiling
Irresponsible
Republican
Raised
Raising
Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.
Eliot Spitzer
Safety
Plants
Corporate
Respond
Would
About
Investors
Leaders
Operations
Overseas
Wal-Mart
Capital
Really
Bribery
Standards
Manufacturing
Company
Cared
Imagine
Pulled
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
Buy
Government
Financial
Back
Our
Way
Sector
Run
Responsible
Responsible Way
City
Solve
Some
Percent
Give
Could
Almost
New
Concept
Revenue
Fiscally
Sales
Sales Tax
York
New York
New York City
Tax
Us
Sanity
Used
Paying
Things
Application
Bring
Here
Raise
Need
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
Government
Health
World
Care
First
Before
Marquee
Entered
Obama
Administration
Divided
Term
Health Care
First Term
Health Care Reform
Passed
Accomplishment
Reform
Legislative
After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.
Eliot Spitzer
Wisdom
Appreciation
Rights
Law
Lawyer
Society
Defense
Our
Framing
Define
Responsibilities
Both
Developed
Prosecutor
Attorney
Years
Role
After
Deep
Play
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
Deficit
Deficit Reduction
Wealthy
Proof
Rates
Both
Moreover
Higher
Investment
Long-Term
Fairness
Because
Reduction
Revert
Dictates
Tax
Rhetoric
Tax Rates
Should
Notwithstanding
Right
Marginal
Necessary
Levels
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
Win
November
Ideology
Party
Loudest
Tea
Lesson
Desperately
Tried
Shake
Voices
Could
Weeks
He
Mainstream
Voters
Votes
Him
Isolated
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Command
Campaign
Linking
Often
Move
Closing
Middle
Romney
Rabid
Tea Party
Needed
To survive, the GOP needs to invite people in, not shut them out.
Eliot Spitzer
Needs
People
Out
Invite
GOP
Survive
Them
To Survive
Shut
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
People
World
Pride
Envy
Wake Up
Country
Nation
Other
Virtually
Our
Everywhere
States
Seem
More
Take
Like
Democratic
Democratic Process
Because
How
Still
Wake
Up
Than
Any
May
Often
Want
Process
Flawed
Should
Stand
United
United States
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.
Eliot Spitzer
Politics
Leadership
Strong
Important
Think
President
President Obama
Indeed
Consistent
Has-Been
Obama
Could
He
Qualities
Policies
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Been
Handled
Antithesis
Romney
Decisive
Sketch
Differently
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
You
Witness
Pressure
Recording
Everybody
Claims
Tell
Would
Brought
Having
Bear
Had
Clear
Prosecutor
Protect
Also
Make
Exerted
Been
Years
Tape
False
Officer
Help
Who
Many
Defendant
A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.
Eliot Spitzer
Politics
History
Year
Though
Than
Eternity
Less
Moment
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
Freedom
World
Nation
Experiment
Tolerance
Ruled
States
Vast
Vast Majority
Had
Fail
Idea
Democratic
Majority
Principles
Very
Dictatorships
Doomed
Centuries
Viewed
Many
United
United States
Founded
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.
Eliot Spitzer
Work
Doing The Right Thing
Fear
Free
Country
Own
Young
Action
Live
President
President Obama
Right Thing
Immigrants
Obama
Through
Openly
Most
Doing
Offering
Often
The Right Thing
Deportation
Right
Thing
Chance
I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.
Elizabeth Edwards
Love
Time
Spending
Spending Time
Getting
Children
Them
Things
You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.
Elizabeth Edwards
You
Know
Guarantees
I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.
Elizabeth Edwards
Death
Me
Sick
Honestly
Television
Seeing
Open
Without
Newspaper
Turn
Turn-On
You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.
Elizabeth Edwards
Life
Alone
You
Respect
Yourself
Try
Somebody
Build
Other
Enough
Else
Admire
Take
Come
Leave
Human
Just
Human Beings
Beings
Lives
I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
Elizabeth Edwards
Cancer
Control
Think
Our
Over
Deny
Any
Intention
Us
Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
Elizabeth Edwards
You
Yesterday
Push
Doing
Were
Dying
Either
Forward
Things
Start
There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.
Elizabeth Edwards
Father
First
Nothing
Living
Say
Inside
About
Himself
Years
Did
Eighteen
Utter
Resilience
Two-Dimensional
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