Category Archives: Classic Quotes

Ralph R. Cioffi, former Bear Stearns hedge fund manager, in a June 2007 e-mail after a Bear Stearns subprime hedge fund lost 100% of its value.  Mr. Cioffi had earned an 8-figure salary in 2006 and was indicted on June 19, 2008 … Continue reading →

E-mail from Matthew M. Tannin to Ralph Cioffi (sent using his private e-mail account to Mr. Cioffi’s wife’s e-mail account), former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers who have been charged with fraud.  A later meeting between the two found Mr. Tannin convinced … Continue reading →

Text message of Tanvar Singh to his friend, Omar Shahid Khan.  The two were charged with, among other things, breaking and entering their school, Tesoro High, to obtain copies of an AP English exam and the Scantron answer key.

Daryl Roberts, chief of police, Hartford, Connecticut, after seeing the video tape from security cameras that showed dozens passing and driving by a 78-year-old hit-and-run victim.  Another Kitty Genovese?

Fan Meizhong, a teacher who abandoned his students when the May 12th earthquake hit China. 

Nancy Clark (Goldie Hawn) to her husband, Henry Clark (Steve Martin) in Neil Simon’s “The Out-of-Towners.”

Author Misha Defonseca.

Some suggested the slugger may have “lied.”

Wachovia Bank executive to another executive upon her realization, through 4,500 customer complaints, that telemarketers that paid Wachovia for access to its customers were defrauding Wachovia customers.