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

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.

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.

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

Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.

Symphonies begin with one note

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Two-hundred forty horsepower isn't enough to move me anymore. Enough to move my body, yes, but not my soul.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

Particularly in my early days, I did very little rewriting.

I experienced racism in different settings: I was followed in stores, in cars. The way you experience racism depends on how you deal with it. My memories of Goodeve are good ones.

To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin".