I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.
Eliot SpitzerThe reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.
Eliot SpitzerTo every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.
Eliot SpitzerPresident 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 SpitzerDon'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.
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