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.
As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.
Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks.
Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.
In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.
If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.
Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.
In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.
In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.
Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock.
I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.
I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.
The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.
People will often take an interesting experimental study which has been done in the world, perhaps at small scale, and then it's touted as some big solution.
You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then look for the autocomplete.
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.
I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.
