Inside the World of Eliot Spitzer

Citizen Spitzer
"When you go through what I've gone through," the former governor says, "you come to appreciate who matters and what and why. But you also lose a bit of the edge that leads you to tilt at windmills. Maybe you might call that ambition. Silda" — his wife — "used to say, 'Being right isn't the only thing.' I would get so caught up in the ambition of proving to the world we're right. You can destroy yourself that way."

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