Awe Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

“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

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

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

Enron had already collapsed and filed for bankruptcy protection by the beginning of 2002. But despite complaints from short sellers that corporations had used…

— Alex Berenson

At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the stock representing…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

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

— Robert Mueller

“Indeed, a truly predatory type of investor - sometimes referred to as a vulture capitalist - looks to use the chasm period of struggle…

— Geoffrey A. Moore

Now, all of a sudden, these guys are so seized with the concern about the debt that they created.

— Joe Biden

Wouldn't it be great if all of Osama bin Laden's money was tied up in Enron stock?

— Dennis Miller

“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 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