When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.

Senate Investigations Committee Chairman George Winner told the New York Post that subpoenas should be used to find out about the loans. In July 2007 he was admoniEliot Spitzerd for his administration's involvement in ordering the New York State Police to record the whereabouts of State Senate majority leader Joseph L. S.

Spitzer was born in New York and raised there by his father real estate tycoon Bernard Spitzer. His campaign was financed by a controversial multi-million dollar loan from his father. It was there that he met his future wife Silda Wall.