Insider Information Quotes

Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.

I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track.

There's even a feature on my website where you can translate messages into codes, so whenever I have any big news it goes out in code first so the diehard fans are the first to know.

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

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.

Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.

My personal sources in the intelligence community and the military are very good. They're excellent. I have very high-up, in-depth sources.

Leaks are a cottage industry in this town [Washington DC].

The public does not know what is possible. We do.

Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story.

Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.

I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.

These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

…defectors are one of the two or three most important sources of intelligence. When you get a man—and we have got several—who have worked inside…their secret service…it’s just almost as though you had somebody inside there for a time.

Martha Stewart denied allegations that she had been given inside information to sell 4,000 shares of a stock in a biotech firm. Stewart then showed her audience how to make a festive, quick-burning yule log out of freshly-shredded financial documents.

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

The idea of insider information to me is almost, like, laughable.

Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.

It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless.

Corporate executives often buy or sell shares in their companies, and stocks rarely rise or fall significantly when those transactions are reported.

I think (fantasy football) has become something that needs to be looked at in terms of regulation. Effectively, it's day trading without any regulation at all. When you have insider information, which has apparently been the case, when you have people who use that information, use big data to try and take advantage of it, there has to be some regulation. If they can't regulate themselves, then the NFL needs to look at moving away from them a little bit, and there should be some regulation.

Mainstream news covers war and gets everything wrong. I'd rather learn what's happening from soldiers with combat experience. It's like a former NFL player giving play-by-play. We bring the expert commentary.

What we learned in there is significantly more than what is out in the media today. I can't speak to what we learned in there, and I don't know if there are other leaks, if there is more information somewhere, if somebody else is going to step up, but I will tell you that I believe it's just the tip of the iceberg.