Pecora Quotes

#1. When it comes to making laws that protect the public from the financial services industry, Congress has done a progressively worse job since the Pecora Commission hearings of the early 1930s, which led to Congress taking bold steps to regulate banking and securities firms in 1933 and 1934.

Gary Weiss

#2. I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

Andre Maurois

#3. Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

Maimonides

#4. There is a wealth of time and money the size of an aircraft carrier for planning wars, but the amount of time and money for helping soldiers when they get home is more akin to the size of a guillotine.

Thor Benson

#5. She put her arm around my shoulder and squeezed me. She whispered, It's not the worst thing, Ruthie, drifting. You'll see. You'll see.

Marilynne Robinson

#6. Even within the dark paint on a canvas, and the shadows in a photograph, there is light.

Melissa Bond