Mary Schapiro Quotes

#1. The SEC has actually progressively loosened up the rules and recognized the value of social media, but the goal is always going to be to get information out as broadly as possible as quickly as possible.

Mary Schapiro

#2. I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

Mary Schapiro

#3. In my case, there's no revolving door ... I won't be going back to government.

Mary Schapiro

#4. Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.

Isabel Paterson

#5. I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.

Mae West

#6. What have you done for YOURSELF this year to create a better life?

Jack Canfield

#7. I became a slightly daft traveler, obsessed with beekeeping and professing to know all there was to know on the topic. I started arguments so others would correct me and speak of beekeepers they had known.

Robin Hobb

#8. Barney spotted our neighbor's lawn, where he promptly took care of his business. There I was, the former president of the United States, with a plastic bag on my hand, picking up that which I had been dodging for the past eight years.

George W. Bush

#9. We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new rules around credit rating agencies.

Mary Schapiro

#10. Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.

Mary Schapiro

#11. An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS.

Laura Bush

#12. Once we recognize our need for Jesus, then the building of our faith begins. It is a daily, moment-by-moment life of absolute dependence upon Him for everything

Catherine Marshall

#13. There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.

Mary Schapiro

#14. It has been an incredibly rewarding experience to work with so many dedicated SEC staff who strive every day to protect investors and ensure our markets operate with integrity.

Mary Schapiro

#15. The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission.

Mary Schapiro

#16. I came in with the intention of serving as long as it made sense for me to do so. The election was a natural moment to think about whether I wanted to stay longer, and I'm thrilled to turn the reins over to my longtime colleague Elisse Walter.

Mary Schapiro

#17. The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found in living. I choose. After all, it's my point of view.

Steve Goodier

#18. Every morning when I pick up the newspaper and read about an earthquake in Japan or problems in European financial institutions, the first question I ask our staff is 'What is money-market-fund exposure?'

Mary Schapiro

#19. When you are living in the present moment, you will experience a deep sense of inner joy, peace and awareness.

Christopher Dines

#20. Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?

Joseph Goebbels

#21. I work on weekends, but from home.

Mary Schapiro

#22. Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen.

E. Lockhart

#23. When the SEC needs to be deterring corporate wrongdoing, the 'penalty pilot' program sends the wrong message.

Mary Schapiro

#24. The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't.

Luke Myer