Eliot Spitzer Quotes

I think water seeks its own level, that we go through challenges to become better. And now more than ever, it's good to look at who you're following in any type of hierarchy or institution - be it a church or the government. We can see how easy it is for people to lose their footing when they have great power.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place.

I entreat you to consider that, when you choose magistrates, you take them from among yourselves, men subject to like passions as you are. Therefore, when you see infirmities in us, you should reflect upon your own, and that would make you bear the more with us, and not be severe censurers of the failings of your magistrates.

Government is not the enemy. Government is simply a tool that can be used wisely or unwisely.

Leadership is important in politics.

No ruler who lacks the gift of persuasion can stay in office long; it is the indispensable condition of government. It would be an idle illusion to assume that any government, no matter how good, could lastingly do without public consent.

We cannot long protect liberty if our leaders continue to act like mere bystanders in the work of government.

We’re the Republican Party in charge of every part of the this government. We have nobody to blame but ourselves.

When it comes to foreign policy, the American people will ultimately reward not the party with the most ambitious vision but the party with the most sober and realistic one.

When we own up our mistakes some people interpret it as if we are wrong. They too commit mistakes.

We’re not here to bring politics to our morality, but to bring morality to our politics.

To inject morality into politics, is, I have said, and I repeat, the watchword of all our efforts.

It is the aim of public life to arrange that all forms of power are entrusted, so far as possible, to men who effectively consent to be bound by the obligation towards all human beings which lies upon everyone, and who understand the obligation.

The Administration of Government, is nothing else but the Attendance of the Trustees of the People upon the Interest and Affairs of the People

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in a true sense, a noble one.

Politics is fate.

Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous.

Politics matter, but politics can't come first. If politics come first in your life, something is wrong with you. It's a sad thing.

I try to be a good person - I don't always succeed, but that's what I'm shooting for.

Governing has always been hard.