I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for ‘Barron’s’ magazine and I found a lot to write about.
BEN STEINI’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.
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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
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I cannot tell you … how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful… It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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Darwinism doesn’t explain where gravity comes from. It doesn’t explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn’t explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn’t explain where matter comes from.
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And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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Science leads you to killing people.
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I feel as if I’m in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
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