Eliot Spitzer

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

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.