The best Quotes by Bernie Madoff

F*ck my victims. I carried them for twenty years, and now I'm doing 150 years.

The thing that was important to me was family, but that's all gone. That's more punishment that being incarcerated.

I basically think everybody would be better off if people weren't able to exert so much influence on politicians with money.

I am painfully aware that I have deeply hurt many, many people.

The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know.

Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules.

The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.

Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks.

The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.

Do you know how bad that coffee has to be to to be considered a health risk in New York? This is the same city where pizza gets delivered by a rat!

I don't wanna f*ck it up because one of us didn't prepare for the slim possibility of New York City traffic!

I think that for me, as a UNC graduate, I value my education - I think everyone who's gone to that university values education.

Michael: "Don't forget my North Carolina shorts!"
Daffy: "Your shorts? From college?"
Michael: "I wore them under my Chicago Bulls uniform every game."
Looney Tunes: "Eeeew."
Michael: "I washed them after every game."
Daffy: "Hahaha... sure!"

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to North Carolina - and that's pretty much the same thing.

I do my thieving indoors; you do yours on the stock exchange.

They’ll have to open Manhattan by morning. Eight dead policemen is one thing, but the stock market losing billions of dollars is quite another.

Okay, first rule of Wall Street: Nobody - and I don't care if you're Warren Buffet or Jimmy Buffet - nobody knows if a stock's going up, down or f*cking sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.

You wanna know what money sounds like? Go to a trading floor on Wall Street.

The game is rigged, and it does not reward people who play by the rules.

These Wall Street guys, you see what they did to this country? They stole from everybody. Hard working people lost everything, and not one of these douchebags went to jail.

You ever hear about Wall Street, Morty? You know what those guys do in their fancy boardrooms? They take their balls and they dip them in cocaine and wipe them all over each other.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

When you don't take a stand against corruption you tacitly support it.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.