As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.

Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U.S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may even be on the rise.

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.

I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can wake up every day and believe in what you're doing.

I just want to apologize in advance that I don’t have enough subpoenas for all of you.

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

I don't get paid to serve the president. I get paid to serve the public and what I think is in the interest of justice, no matter who the president is.

I don't eat green things, no vegetables.

I'm a big fan of meat.

In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.

I don't like coffee but I need caffeine.

When you only know your faults and failures, you allow yourself and others to downgrade your dreams and belittle your wants.

It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day.

We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.

Could your medicine be a cell, not a pill? Could your medicine be an organ that's created outside the body? Could your medicine be an environment?

All true work is sacred.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.