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

I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.

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

I have ... spoken to the heads of various Wall Street equity derivatives trading desks and every single one of the senior managers I spoke with told me that Bernie Madoff was a fraud. Of course no one wants to take an undue career risk by sticking their head up ... The fewer people who know who wrote this report the better. I am worried about the personal safety of myself and my family.

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

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.