The Best Spitzerism Yet?

Eliot Spitzer, in the deftest rhetorical move of this young year, may have composed the best aphoristic defense of alpha-bureaucrat behavoir since Robert Moses’ “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs”:

Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday stepped up his defense against charges that he has sought to intimidate his political foes, contending, “You will not change the world by whispering.”

But Spitzer, who has come in for some withering criticism as he seeks the Democratic nomination for governor, also conceded he would say some things differently if he had a chance to say them over again.

“Just as journalists, I think, would look back at a story six years later and say, ‘I’d change one or two words,’ of course, you look back on statements and conversations and, yes, you could have changed a word here or there,” Spitzer declared at a press conference. [Emph. added]

If it’s original, get his Bartlett’s entry ready!