Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud.

- Don Nickles

I've got a huge, huge position in mortgage-backed securities. I started accumulating them in 2009, when the market was really down and things were really scary.

- Jeff Greene

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.

- Preet Bharara

The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.

- Ron Chernow