James Greenwood Quotes (13 Quotes)

The facts in this matter, I thought, were very clear, ... I can't believe she didn't understand that she had participated in this insider trading, and she had tried to cover it up. And the Justice Department is always going to be lenient if you make a plea bargain agreement, if you don't go to court, admit your guilt. It's historically the smart thing to do when you've done something that you shouldn't have.

Ms. Watkins is not a whistleblower in the conventional sense, ... She was and is a loyal company employee who sought valiantly and, sadly, in vain to get the people in charge to face the facts and make the hard choices needed to save the company.

It was explained Friday in The Wall Street Journal by Holman Jenkins, one of the best business columnists in America. Let me just read from this column. Mr. Greenwood's subcommittee ... ... ... is pursuing Ms. Stewart solely because she's a celebrity, just like Mr. Greenwood wants to be. But having had his jollies and appeared on a dozen talking-head shows, the moment has come to notice that the evidence is circumstantial and it all points to no crime being committed by Ms. Stewart.

We're mostly about the human health side, but we are also about food and agriculture.

The Supreme Court ultimately will rule on COPA, and we look forward to the day when we can receive the high court's opinion on our legislative effort to protect children from hard-core pornography

Reluctant witnesses will not keep us from getting at the truth.

You can't legislate morality, ... Some very bright lines have to be draw to bring us into the 21 st century for the economy we have now. We can make some very bright lines in the law.

The possible cloning of human beings is now not relegated to the world of fiction, and the question to the world is this -- what should we do with this science

You're just as dead if you die in the hospital waiting for a drug that should have been approved six months ago.

The committee is profoundly disturbed about the recent string of allegations that companies...may have engaged in questionable accounting practices.

It is clear that scores of professionals and support staff were involved in the shredding of paper and deletion of computer files relating to the Enron audit. Yet to date, committee investigators have been unable to locate or learn about a single Andersen employee who raised any concerns or objections about destroying Enron-related documents even after the Securities and Exchange Commission inquiry became public,

I'd rather not subpoena Ms. Stewart, ... I've extended an invitation to talk with our investigators. I said we'd do that in the place of her choosing in a nonpublic way without advance notice to the press so we wouldn't have paparazzi there. But she's declined to do that.

Mr. Duncan, Enron robbed the bank. Arthur Andersen provided the getaway car, and they say you were at the wheel.