Inside the World of Eliot Spitzer

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Gillian Laub for TIME

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"Politics gets my heart pounding faster than buying a building and raising rents," Spitzer says. But "you have to understand what my family would go through. It would be unbearable. I just couldn't do that to them. It would be day after day of the ugly stuff."

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