Eliot Spitzer Quotes

Being mayor of San Francisco is dealing with pot holes and dog doo.

I was elected to carry forward my overall vision for the city.

John Kitzhaber was a visionary leader for Oregon.

The background of a mayor of a city of any size is a background of somebody who on one hand is an executive and on the other hand is very close to the ground.

As mayor, I'm charged with a big-picture agenda.

Mayors are really good at dealing with things practically.

I've been mayor for five years. I've led a city. And directed a police department. I know how to use resources.

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

You know, one thing I've learned over 40 years is that when you have jobs in Washington, you do it day by day and that's what I'm doing as secretary of defense.

My sense is, as governor I've gotten a lot of stuff done.

I have 15 years of executive experience as a big-city mayor and as a governor.

If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.

I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.

I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.

I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.

The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.

As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.

Clearly, Mayor Bloomberg did some things right. I think he did a very good job on public health. He did a very good job on environment. I think he was right to achieve mayoral control of education. I don't think he then applied it the right way.

My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engage in principle compromise. And understand your job is to find solutions.

I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.

I think maybe it is about time for a governor who has created jobs, who's managed a budget, who's led and inspired large organizations, who listens well, and who can drive an agenda.

When we run for office, our job is to work for everybody. You can't work for everybody if you don't listen to everybody.

I was a biographer of MacArthur and Eisenhower. Eisenhower was smarter. MacArthur was more glib. When MacArthur had a problem, he turned it over to Eisenhower.

The distinction between a statesman and a politician is that the former imposes his will and his ideas on his environment while the latter adopts himself to it.