Full Speed Ahead
A year and a half after his dramatic fall from power, Eliot Spitzer has slowly, tentatively returned to the public arena. He is a favorite guest on cable news shows and recently appeared on The Colbert Report.
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The Office
Spitzer currently spends much of his days at his father's real estate firm, where he keeps busy until six, when he heads home to make dinner for his daughters.
Going Somewhere?
Though Spitzer would like to return to politics, any bid for office he might make would most certainly be clouded by the scandal that lurks in his past.
Next Stop
"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."
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."
SOURCE: TIME Magazine
