The best thing you can say about offshore investors is that they're tax cheats in their home countries.

I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.

A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.

The SEC now is 3500 chickens, and we need to get some foxes in there.

Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme.

Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.

We as the American people have to hold ourselves accountable because we didn't hold our government accountable.

Reality can be entered through the main door or it can be slipped into through a window, which is much more fun.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious! If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.

Success isn't something you chase. It's something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it'll come when you least expect it. Most people don't understand that.

I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must permit the individual to fulfil himself or herself to the utmost.

Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.

You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.