Quotes About Insider Trading

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

Preet Bharara

#2. Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price.

Alex Berenson

#3. I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.

Gary Weiss

#4. I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.

Preet Bharara

#5. Former Enron founder Ken Lay and CEO Jeffrey Skilling found guilty in the Enron case. Ken Lay is so guilty I'm surprised people aren't calling him Congressman Ken Lay. Wait 'till these guys find out in prison that insider trading has a whole new meaning.

Jay Leno

#6. Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.

Gary Weiss

#7. Fifteen years ago, this would have been insider trading, but that quaint concept had disappeared a decade or two ago when so many brokers were doing it that it was impossible to jail them all. Now it was called smart trading.

Max Barry

#8. 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.

Preet Bharara

#9. Why are people who are appalled at insider trading so quick to trade on inside information when it comes their way?

Jonathan Clements

#10. Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.

Preet Bharara

#11. Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#12. This document outlines our plan to perpetrate insurance fraud, insider trading, and character assassination.
... hopefully tripling our paycheck on this job.
Okay, see? Those words I understand just fine. Use them more often.
-Lieutenant Massey Reynstein & Captain Tagon

Howard Tayler

#13. That is the lesson I have learned about our justice system and their war on insider trading. It doesn't matter what you did but what you do when they ask for your cooperation.

James Fleishman

#14. The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels.

Preet Bharara

#15. Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.

Preet Bharara

#16. President Obama signed a bill preventing members of Congress from profiting from insider trading. Didn't you think that was already illegal?

Jay Leno

#17. If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.

James Surowiecki

#18. Federal authorities have informed Martha Stewart's lawyers she will be indicted for her role in the ImClone insider trading scandal. Good news for Martha - stripes are back in this year.

Craig Kilborn

#19. I am troubled that someone would sell a book, trading on their service as a government insider with access to our nation's most valuable intelligence, in order to profit from the suffering that this nation endured on September 11, 2001.

Bill Frist

#20. Young people don't have a fantasy life anymore, not the way we did. All they've got is Kojak and Dirty Harry. There's all these kids running around wanting to be killer cops.

George Lucas

#21. If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.

Michael Corbat

#22. I love this quote when Valerian the King of the Nymphs says to his mate Shaye;
"I am Valerian, leader of the nymphs. You may call me Oh God, that is what the other surface dwellers have preferred to call me".

Gena Showalter

#23. It's frightening that there's no guarantee that I'll be loved.

Natsuki Takaya

#24. I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

Shelby Foote

#25. Your mother mentioned she had a little girl. These are for you, sweetheart. Just a little something, heh heh."
He handed me a wrinkled paper bag with a grease spot on it. I hate it when you could hear a person's saliva right in their laugh.

Wally Lamb

#26. Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

Pythagoras

#27. Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.

Oliver Markus

#28. The gift of life is the most valuable wealth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. In the future, each of us must have the courage to follow our gift or to be engaged in a favorite occupation, even if it does not bring you any income at the moment

Sunday Adelaja

#30. The tunnels shrieked with the wind, each one with its own febrile pitch, creating a fierce chorus.

Steven Erikson

#31. To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.

Jean Tinguely

#32. Your job isn't to judge. - Your job isn't to figure out if someone deserves something or decide who is right or wrong. - Your job is to lift the fallen, restore the broken, and heal the hurting.

Joel Osteen