“In today’s regulatory environment, it’s virtually impossible to violate rules … but it’s impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.”

It’s a proprietary strategy. I can’t go into it in great detail.

The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who’s selling it to him does not know. There’s no zero sum game in Wall Street.

The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.

The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is ‘the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you’.

You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes.

In today’s regulatory environment, it’s virtually impossible to violate rules.

Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.

All one great big lie.

That’s the worst. Imagine going through a scandal, or a divorce, or a death in the family, and running into fans on the street. Because of where my heart is.

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

People love scandal; people love drama. They love stripping away the layers to see what’s really in there, and they’ll do anything – as well as make it up – to get it.

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.

You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.

What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I’m gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.