Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme.

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.

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.

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

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

David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.

If we keep seeking, we shall find the sacred land.

Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.

The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

I always stay in the urban comedy genre because it just never gets old. It's one of those things that people watch, again and again. This is that kind of movie. It gives you longevity.

See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.

It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.