Richard Walker Quotes (16 Quotes)

A blunt reminder to people who are paid to tout stocks on the Internet You must disclose the nature and amount of your compensation and it must be easily accessible, not buried somewhere on the Web site.

It's always a shock no matter what you may think of anyone in the neighborhood there's nothing compared to this.

School means I have to do homework. That takes up my time when I should be riding my dirt bike.

If we had nothing else to do, the accounting investigations alone could keep us busy for the next five or 10 years. The size and magnitude are crushing,

There's two reasons One is geographical, when you're in the middle of the fastest-growing part of the country, near these big urban centers, the richest places always have the highest costs, partly because they're successful.

By establishing a reserve and bleeding it into income in later years, the company made it seem as though the profits were increasing, ... That misleads investors, and that's wrong.

Natural disasters always reveal the social order of things -- the social disorder really, and that's what we're seeing here. You start peeling away the layers with an event like this hurricane, and the ugliness comes up from beneath very quickly.

If you got here other than by horse, or on foot, or on a bicycle, then shame, shame on you.

It's fraud. It misleads people, and it causes people to falsely buy stock on false and misleading information ... and lose money as a result,

They have to amend the way they do business, and we will have examiners to make them amend and adjust their practices, to put an end to lax oversight once and for all.

What used to require a network of professional promoters and brokers, banks of telephones and months to accomplish can now be done in minutes by a single person using the Internet and a home computer.

Expert advice is that most children who are overweight should not actually lose weight,

This action reflects the commission's close scrutiny of accounting practices in the technology industry to make certain that the financial disclosure of companies in this area reflect present reality,

Fair competition and effective self-regulation are hallmarks of our securities markets. The options exchanges named in today's Monday's enforcement actions did not fulfill adequately their responsibilities in both respects.

Obviously, there is no guarantee that you will not develop cancer even with a healthy active lifestyle but it does substantially reduce the risks.

Let's face it, Southern poverty is overwhelming, and usually that gets kind of papered over for the rest of us because of the charm of places like New Orleans. But it's pretty grim, really, and now we're being reminded of that.