Brian Krzanich Quotes

I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act.

I will be the first to admit that I've made my own mistakes when it comes to Virginia's disclosure requirements.

Our goal is to set the gold standard when it comes to compliance.

I fully support accountability and transparency.

No matter what your decisions are, no matter what your votes are, if you're not playing by the rules, you're taking a big risk.

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

We don't break the law.

We followed the law, we follow our policies, we self-report, we identify problems, we fix them. And I think we do a great job, and we do, I think, more to protect people's civil liberties and privacy than they'll ever know.

When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price.

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

I've signed thousands of documents, but never read them.

I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.

Traditionally, companies have made major announcements before or after the close of trading so that all interested investors and analysts are apprised of the news before trading resumes in their stocks.

I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency: that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling.

Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

We did not investigate Wall Street because we were troubled by large institutions making a lot of money; we took action to stop a blatant fraud that was ripping of small investors.

It was gross negligence…. We failed in carrying through some of the salient aspects of the Oswald investigation. It ought to be a lesson to us all, but I doubt if some even realize it now.

I have gone to great lengths, and in some cases beyond what is required by the reporting guidelines to ensure all of my filings are beyond reproach, by hiring an independent third-party accounting firm to review and audit all of my previous annual financial disclosures.

We've done all the work that needs to be done on the inside to make sure there's no malfeasance inside Chrysler.

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.

A company not under sanction is just like any other company, period.