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"Bernard Madoff should no longer be let back in society."
- Madoff victim Michael Schwartz
"Here the message must be sent that Mr. Madoff's crimes were extraordinarily evil and that this kind of manipulation of the system is not just a bloodless crime that takes place on paper, but one instead that takes a staggering toll."
- Judge Denny Chin, on sentencing Madoff to 150 years
"I don't ask for any forgiveness."
- Bernard L. Madoff
"In some way, shape or form, 2010 and beyond will see economic growth. How positive it is remains to be seen."
- General Electric Co. CEO Jeffrey Immelt
"We are in some very hard and severe economic times. The president and I are both not happy."
- Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, on worse-than-expected jobless numbers
"Nobody likes a desperate job seeker. You might as well go around saying, 'I have leprosy.' "
- career coach Ford R. Myers
"In the down economy, the scam artists crawl out from under rocks." - North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper
"It's kind of a sister-cousin concept to materialism, which is attachment to possessions. Transumerism, coming from the term transient, it's more 'I don't want to be attached to the possession' more 'I'm attached to the experiences.' "
- Alexandra Aguirre Rodriguez, assistant marketing professor at Florida International University, explaining transumerism
"In the South there's an old saying: The pioneers get all the arrows."
- Jack Williams of BDO consulting, on why the General Motors Corp. bankruptcy should proceed faster than Chrysler Group L.L.C.'s
Compiled from The Inquirer, Associated Press, Bloomberg News.
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