Bonus Quote of the Day

“There are some collateral consequences that aren’t purely negative. I’d never say, ‘Gee, this is an affirmatively good thing,’ but if it tempers and changes public attitude because it softens someone who is now more empathetic and now more conscious of emotional dynamics with others, the public senses that.”

— Eliot Spitzer (D), quoted by Time, on the positive aspects of the prostitution scandal that forced him from office.