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> [Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-ross-sorkin/under-the-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-a-company-is-not-allowed-to/)

[Andrew Ross Sorkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-ross-sorkin/)

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## More by Andrew Ross Sorkin

> [As a child, I always enjoyed - my parents used to have these little cocktail parties - and I always loved trying to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-ross-sorkin/as-a-child-i-always-enjoyed-my-parents-used-to-have-these-little/)

[Andrew Ross Sorkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-ross-sorkin/)

> [“Everyone thinks Goldman is so fucking smart,” he railed. “Just because Goldman says this is the right valuation, you shouldn’t assume it’s correct just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-ross-sorkin/everyone-thinks-goldman-is-so-fucking-smart-he-railed-just-because/)

[Andrew Ross Sorkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-ross-sorkin/)

> [The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-ross-sorkin/the-failure-of-lehman-may-have-allowed-the-government-to-do-more-to/)

[Andrew Ross Sorkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-ross-sorkin/)

> [When you can't lend or trade - and you can't invest with the leverage that juiced returns to support seven- and eight-figure bonuses -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-ross-sorkin/when-you-can-t-lend-or-trade-and-you-can-t-invest-with-the-leverage/)

[Andrew Ross Sorkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-ross-sorkin/)

> [Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-ross-sorkin/debt-we-ve-learned-is-the-match-that-lights-the-fire-of-every-crisis/)

[Andrew Ross Sorkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-ross-sorkin/)

> [It's the people who have an incentive to find the problem who usually find the problem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-ross-sorkin/it-s-the-people-who-have-an-incentive-to-find-the-problem-who-usually/)

[Andrew Ross Sorkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-ross-sorkin/)

> [In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-ross-sorkin/in-truth-in-the-fairy-tale-version-of-bailing-out-lehman-the-next/)

[Andrew Ross Sorkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-ross-sorkin/)

> [Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets. Others like newspapers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-ross-sorkin/some-billionaires-like-cars-yachts-and-private-jets-others-like/)

[Andrew Ross Sorkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-ross-sorkin/)

> [No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-ross-sorkin/no-one-suggested-lehman-deserved-to-be-saved-but-the-argument-has/)

[Andrew Ross Sorkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-ross-sorkin/)

> [“This generation of Wall Street CEOs could be the ones to forfeit America’s trust. When the history of the Great Recession is written, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-ross-sorkin/this-generation-of-wall-street-ceos-could-be-the-ones-to-forfeit/)

[Andrew Ross Sorkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-ross-sorkin/)

> [“There are no atheists in foxholes or ideologues in a financial crisis. Ben Bernanke”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-ross-sorkin/there-are-no-atheists-in-foxholes-or-ideologues-in-a-financial-crisis/)

[Andrew Ross Sorkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-ross-sorkin/)

> [Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-ross-sorkin/wall-street-is-littered-with-clever-plans-to-use-financial/)

[Andrew Ross Sorkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-ross-sorkin/)

> [I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-ross-sorkin/i-don-t-sleep-well-i-m-a-very-nervous-by-my-nature-anxious-almost/)

[Andrew Ross Sorkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-ross-sorkin/)

> [I was always one of those people who would watch the Super Bowl as much for the sports as I did for the ads.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-ross-sorkin/i-was-always-one-of-those-people-who-would-watch-the-super-bowl-as/)

[Andrew Ross Sorkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-ross-sorkin/)

> [“While the financial crisis destroyed careers and reputations, and left many more bruised and battered, it also left the survivors with a genuine sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-ross-sorkin/while-the-financial-crisis-destroyed-careers-and-reputations-and-left/)

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