Quotes About Madoff

#1. Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.

Patrick DeWitt

#2. You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.

Adam McKay

#3. For those who unfairly lump Social Security in with Bernie Madoff, in all fairness, you should point out the difference. No one was ever legally required to pay money to Madoff.

Addison Wiggin

#4. I look at the newspapers, and I cannot believe most of the stories I read. Bernie Madoff, who actually screwed millions of people for billions of dollars, it's just unbelievable what he got away with and how long it took for him to be exposed. A guy like that should be hanged.

Alan Abel

#5. Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?

Paul Krugman

#6. I'm the Bernie Madoff of this spider.

Cody Lundin

#7. Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme.

Harry Markopolos

#8. The federal government has made explicit and implicit promises to millions of people, but has put no money aside in order to keep those promises. Some of you may wonder where Bernie Madoff got the idea for his Ponzi scheme. Clearly he was studying federal entitlement policy.

John C. Goodman

#9. My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.

Kevin Bacon

#10. There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.

Dambisa Moyo

#11. Some people are in positions of power, and when incentives go haywire, we are all human and it's easy to make mistakes. I am not saying everybody is Bernie Madoff.

Nicholas Jarecki

#12. Anyone else find it funny that Bernie Madoff's last name is a homophone of 'made-off'?

David C. Holley

#13. I'm still trying to write. I wrote a play a few years ago, so I'm trying to start writing again. The play was called The Commons Of Pensacola. It was at MTC [Manhattan Theatre Club] with Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner. It was kind of like a riff on Ruth Madoff.

Amanda Peet

#14. Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries.

Daniel Pauly

#15. Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.

John Stossel

#16. The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.

Bernard Madoff

#17. It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail.

Bernard Madoff

#18. Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks.

Bernard Madoff

#19. I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

Mark Leyner

#20. God is the originator of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes.

Bernard Madoff

#22. May God guide every step of your travel.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.

Bernard Madoff

#24. Life, they showed me, could go on no matter how unpredictable, no matter how unfair.

Stephanie Madoff Mack

#25. The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street.

Bernard Madoff

#26. I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

Dolly Parton

#27. In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules.

Bernard Madoff

#28. the mightiest and most extensive mountain range on Earth was - mostly - under water.

Bill Bryson

#29. Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we run toward the future to get the conditions we think are missing. But by doing so we sacrifice the present moment; we sacrifice true life.

Nhat Hanh

#30. I'm going to die very soon. Before my 21st birthday. I won't live to be 21. I'm never going to be old. I don't ever want to be ugly and old. I'm an old lady now anyhow. I'm 80. There's nothing left. I've already lived a whole lifetime. I'm going out. In a blaze of glory.

Nancy Spungen

#31. Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

Brenda Strong

#32. As long as my husband's looking at me, that's all I care about!

Kelly LeBrock

#33. I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.

Richard Dawkins

#34. All one great big lie.

Bernard Madoff

#35. Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.

Bernard Madoff