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
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
I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas. – Eliot Spitzer
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we dont 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
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets. – Arthur Balfour