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The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his life to social justice, warns of the corruption lurking among us, and falls victim to his inner demons at the very moment of vindication.

We don't have spittoons on street corners any more. It's no longer acceptable to spit on the street.

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1.

You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.

I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.

Keeping his face clean over Watergate was one of Kissinger's biggest successes; so was his overall handling of the Yom Kippur War.

I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.