In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.

I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can wake up every day and believe in what you're doing.

As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.

I don't like coffee but I need caffeine.

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.

I eat almost no lunch. I have a big dinner but I don't have a big lunch.

I have come to really love the sound of nervous laughter.