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'I wish they caught me six years ago, eight years ago.'

BERNIE MADOFF, jailed financier and Ponzi schemer, in a newly released interview with representatives of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which was part of an investigation into the SEC's failure to uncover Madoff's scam for 16 years

'Food-stamp beneficiaries aren't them--they're us.'

JAMES WEILL, president of the Food Research and Action Center, on an analysis of 30 years of data that found nearly half of all U.S. children and 90% of black youths will have to depend on food stamps at some point in their childhoods

'Nothing fell off.'

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