Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.

We as the American people have to hold ourselves accountable because we didn't hold our government accountable.

The SEC now is 3500 chickens, and we need to get some foxes in there.

A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.

The best thing you can say about offshore investors is that they're tax cheats in their home countries.

I don't know how I could have been more explicit. I gave them a roadmap and a flashlight, but they didn't go where I told them to go, they didn't look where I told them to look, they didn't tell the people I told them to call.

Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme.