“The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of large trunks filled with Enron documents were sent [to] Andersen's main Houston office to be shredded,”
Arthur Andersen
“Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American public by such companies as Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco and Adelphia, we finally got the ringleader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle.”
Jon Stewart
“the powerful lesson from Enron for me is the power of self delusion and how people rationalise and deceive themselves. And I think when Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling say they are innocent now, as they do with their trial approaching in early 2006, they mean it on a certain level. One smart financial observer said to me that he's never met the CEO of a fraudulent company who didn't come to believe in what he'd created.”
Bethany McLean
“This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.”
Senator John Kerry
“I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal.”
Kenneth Lay
“We're all trying to get our heads above the battle smoke and look for the real meaning of Enron to put it in perspective,”
Henry Paulson
“We've all got to work to restore business confidence...but I believe that longer term we may look at Enron as being a positive as opposed to a negative, ... It may lead to greater transparency.”
