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.

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.

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.

I have come to really love the sound of nervous laughter.

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

Everybody knows pretty much everything about me. I emptied all the skeletons out of my closet a long time ago.

You must experience everything that you are feeling. This is what will lead you to the splintered parts of your personality.

When you believe what you know, you love.

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

I have this terrible habit of wanting to try to be consistent and develop a philosophy that's coherent.

Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.

Last I heard, I was being traded to Washington for Monica Lewinsky.