Kenneth Langone

Businessman

1935-09-16

Quotes by Kenneth Langone

• We ought to look at Social Security. We ought to ask ourselves the question, is there inherently something wrong with Social Security that a man like me is eligible for Social Security? There's something wrong with the system.

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• Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.

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• When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE's legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state's history.

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• Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.

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• The wealth that was created by my investments wasn't put into a giant swimming pool as so many elected demagogues seem to imagine. Instead it benefitted our employees, their families and our community at large.

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