Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system.

Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.

One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.

What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility.

Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you.

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.

Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation.

Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

It is incumbent on us to facilitate the development of a market structure that best assures that these changes benefit the U.S. securities markets as a whole.

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.

Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.

I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.

Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish.

Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system.

Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches.

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

You give to yourself by giving of yourself.

The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.

So everyone has that problem, models have that problem, too.

We cannot, of course, eliminate all accidents - no industry can do that.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.

Shows like 'Top Chef,' 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world on a whole, but you have to be cautious it doesn't get out of hand.

I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.

In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Each of us have a choice to make. Will we choose to achieve our dreams or will we choose to allow others to use us to achieve their dreams.

I've got four houses in my street. I live in two, and the others are empty. I'll buy more as they come up, because I think it would be great to have the entire street.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

I need to broaden my horizons.

Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.