About Quote by Bethany McLean

“The after-the-fact rationalizations were strikingly similar to the mind-set that produced the Enron disaster in the first place. The arguments were narrow and rules-based,…

— Bethany McLean

The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed.

— Joel Achenbach

The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax breaks to…

— James Lileks

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their…

— Robert Kiyosaki

“A year earlier, no company had been accorded more faith than Enron; by late November, none was trusted less. And so, a gasping gurgle,…

— Roger Lowenstein

Early 2000s, we get Enron, which tells us the books are dirty. And what is our repeated response? We just keep pulling the threads…

— Elizabeth Warren

Bush began helping Enron in the eighties.

— Paul Begala

The only beef Enron employees have with top management is that management did not inform employees of the collapse in time to allow them…

— Ann Coulter

When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the…

— Julian Assange

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

— Robert Mueller

I think for some time, issues of antitrust were viewed as somewhat arcane.

— Lina Khan

I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society.

— Paul Krugman