223 Quotes by Eliot Spitzer

It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

I think the investment community, consumers, the investment houses themselves are anxious to get resolution here, ... So the faster we can fill that void and get closure on this, the better.

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

Late-day trading is like being permitted to bet on yesterday's horse races, ... You already know who's going to win.

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.

Risk is inherent in the market, ... We all understand that and we thrive on that; what we don't tolerate is fraud.

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.

Restitution I have almost always believed is best handled through individual arbitration or litigation where individual investors, if they believe they have relied upon improper advice rendered by Merrill Lynch or anybody else, can file that claim, ... That is the best forum for those issues to be resolved.