A Collection of Vile Quotes

February, 2010

"The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people."

Kwame Kilpatrick

January, 2010

"I've been stereotyped my whole life, ... ... It's actually not driven by Detroiters only. It's driven by the media. It's driven by the entire region. The 'us against them,' the 'black and white thing' is getting old."

"I think there were a lot of people out there who were upset with me for one reason or another."

The Salahis

December, 2009

"We were invited, not crashers, and there isn't anyone that would have the audacity or the poor behavior to do that. The White House is 'the house' and no one would do that, certainly not us"

Calisto Tanzi

December, 2009

"I didn't understand much about all those things. I realised that there was a particular emergency within my company - I instructed my collaborators to sort things out and they got on with it, they had carte blanche, then they came back and told me that everything was okay. But they didn't tell me in great detail how it had been sorted out"

"I don't have any secret cache" [of paintings]"

Scott Rothstein

November, 2009

"They figure they should let a sleeping dog lie. I like to jab the dog in the eye. And if it bites me, I'll jab its eye out."

Larry Langford

October, 2009

"They struck as many blacks off that jury as they could."

Danielle Chiesi

October, 2009

"I'm dead if this leaks."

"I'll be like Martha [expletive] Stewart."

Betsy McCaughey

October, 2009

"Nobody should lose their home or their savings because they get sick, but this bill is dangerous."

Sergei Polonsky

September, 2009

"Those who don’t have a billion, can go to hell."

"It’s not hard to have a lot of money, it’s hard to know how to spend it with style."

Eddie Perez

August, 2009

"You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out."

"Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed."

Mark Sanford

July, 2009

"Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss."

"This was a whole lot more than a simple affair, this was a love story. A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day."

Richard “Dick” Cheney

July, 2009

"I had other priorities in the sixties than military service."

"Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy."

John Thaine

June, 2009

"Corporate America is very optimistic right now."

"Individuals will be charged in this matter."

Rick Scott

May, 2009

"I believe that free-market principles will solve our health-care problems."

Samuel Molinaro Jr.

May, 2009

"I have been at this for 22 years, and this is about as bad as I have seen it in the fixed-income market."

Charles O. Prince III

May, 2009

"Our job is to set a tone at the top to incent people to do the right thing and to set up safety nets to catch people who make mistakes or do the wrong thing and correct those as quickly as possible. And it is working. It is working."

"We're not going to do big, complicated deals. We are going to do string-the-pearls, extend-the-franchise type of deals."

Kerry K. Killinger

May, 2009

"We hope to do to this industry what Wal-Mart did to theirs, Starbucks did to theirs, Costco did to theirs and Lowe’s-Home Depot did to their industry."

Liz Peek

May, 2009

"I haven’t even looked at spring clothes; God forbid someone catches me out in something new."

R. Allen Stanford

April, 2009

"As God is my witness, there is no Ponzi scheme"

"Well, uh, yes. Yes. Yes. I’d have to say it’s fun being a billionaire."

Ruth Madoff

February, 2009

"Bernie and I worked together in the investment business he founded in 1960."