It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. - Eliot Spitzer 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas. - Eliot Spitzer 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. - Eliot Spitzer 10 Share Now -
