Andrew Fastow Quotes

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

Andrew Fastow

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• When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'

  

  Gallant
  • City
  • New York
  • Prison

• AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Compassion
  • Deserve

• I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Time
  • World
  • Pretty

• I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Prison
  • Human Rights

• I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Experience
  • House
  • Research

• The people of the Fifth District of Louisiana need and deserve a voice in Washington.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • People
  • Voice
  • Deserve

• It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • History
  • Man
  • Prison

• Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Saying
  • Birth
  • Punishment

• Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Memory
  • Prison
  • Remarkable

• People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.

  

  Pat Riley
  • People
  • Deserve
  • Begin

• Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Used
  • Deserve
  • Herbs

• The idea that an actress - mostly lauded for her performances in more than a dozen films - somehow represents a threat to Iran's national security is laughable at best. But in Ahangarani's case, far from anything humorous, the allegations have actually resulted in the sober prospect of real prison time.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • Real
  • Best

• People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Prison
  • Seeing

• The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Eye
  • Prison
  • Brotherhood

• This too I know-and wise it wereIf each could know the same-That every prison that men buildIs built with bricks of shame,And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Christ
  • Prison

• A fate is not a punishment.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Fate
  • Punishment

• Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition, steals our reason; we're soon behind those invisible bars On the inside, looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Design

• To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Child
  • Prison
  • Cuba

• Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Progress
  • Race

• Don't apologize for asking for what you deserve.

  

  Mika Brzezinski
  • Simple
  • Deserve
  • Asking

• Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

  

  Samuel Richardson
  • Shame
  • Punishment
  • Beating

• So far, the actual actions taken have been relatively modest, but there is some hope, I think, that, going forward, these actions will advance further and we will see more progress in the current account.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Hope
  • Taken
  • Progress

• When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed, the heart lies in great stony ruin at your feet. If you succeed in breaking it, the job is done once and for all. It will not be repaired.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Heart
  • Done
  • Lying

• I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

  

  Andrew Fastow
  • Deserve
  • Prison
  • Punishment