Accountability Quote by Molly Ivins

Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on…

— Bethany McLean

Laws were made to be broken.

— Christopher North

Some Laws were meant to be broken.

— Cassandra Clare

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

There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.

— James Crumley

“Exogenous and blind interpretation of statutes, topped with hustled implementation of laws by the corporates, leads only to more turmoil and less productivity.”

— Henrietta Newton Martin

I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware…

— Kenneth Lay

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

If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.

— Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the…

— Lucretius

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

History has shown that there are very few mechanisms as effective at maintaining the status quo as a set of institutionalized regulations. Once set…

— Paul Baran