Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.

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The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.Eliot Spitzer

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Lesson Party Tea Party

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.James Lovelock

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Religious The One Thing Ghost

The most difficult thing is to make sure the standards remain high in each restaurant.Joel Robuchon

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You must have anger, as rightful wrath is what makes you create your own ethical standards. - Kamal Haasan

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Wrath Ethical Rightful

You can't really rely on a couple of athletes to deliver you medals in five consecutive Olympic Games. It's absolutely unrealistic. You have to have a system in place where you continue to increase the depth of the sport which pushes performance levels to higher standards.Abhinav Bindra

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Athletes Higher Higher Standard

Rising living standards - whether in a village, a region, a nation, or the world - depend first on specialization: on letting people concentrate on what they do best and trade with others who specialize in other things.Virginia Postrel

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Depend Specialize Trade

While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.Eliot Spitzer

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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold. - Walter Annenberg

Walter Annenberg

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It is of the highest importance to provide equal access to the labour market. Governments should act to establish equitable employment standards and penalise racial discrimination.Tariq Ramadan

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Equitable Access Employment

The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.Eliot Spitzer

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Focal Point Tea Party Principle

Let's create a regime that makes sale of bullets to anybody not licensed to carry a gun illegal, makes resale illegal, micro-stamps bullets so they can be traced. No Second Amendment issues here. This would have a remarkable impact on both violence and the capacity to solve shooting crimes.Eliot Spitzer

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We must commit ourselves to an 'all of the above' energy approach, with a major focus on increasing domestic production and expanding alternatives fuels, while increasing efficiency and conservation standards.Peter Roskam

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Domestic Increasing Efficiency

As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.Eliot Spitzer

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Markets Fair Play Competition

Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.Eliot Spitzer

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