{"id":606,"date":"2006-01-11T10:19:08","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/the_best_spitzerism_yet.html"},"modified":"2006-01-11T10:19:08","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T18:19:08","slug":"the_best_spitze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/the_best_spitze.html","title":{"rendered":"The Best Spitzerism Yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eliot Spitzer, in the deftest rhetorical move of this young year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/61413.htm\">may have composed the best aphoristic defense of alpha-bureaucrat behavoir since Robert Moses&#8217; &#8220;You can&#8217;t make an omelet without breaking eggs&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday stepped up his defense against charges that he has sought to intimidate his political foes, contending, <strong>&#8220;You will not change the world by whispering.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But Spitzer, who has come in for some withering criticism as he seeks the Democratic nomination for governor, also conceded he would say some things differently if he had a chance to say them over again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just as journalists, I think, would look back at a story six years later and say, &#8216;I&#8217;d change one or two words,&#8217; of course, you look back on statements and conversations and, yes, you could have changed a word here or there,&#8221; Spitzer declared at a press conference.<\/em> [Emph. added]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If it&#8217;s original, get his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/100\/\">Bartlett&#8217;s<\/a> entry ready!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eliot Spitzer, in the deftest rhetorical move of this young year, may have composed the best aphoristic defense of alpha-bureaucrat behavoir since Robert Moses&#8217; &#8220;You can&#8217;t make an omelet without breaking eggs&#8221;: Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday stepped up his defense against charges that he has sought to intimidate his political foes, contending, &#8220;You will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}