Money Quotes

"Look jackass, I fucking skipped breakfast this morning just so I could eat four slices of your pizza. Don't be a schmuck, just get back to the kitchen and bring out some fucking pizza, okay?"

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:20:00 +0000

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, denied a second slice of pizza at a Brooklyn eatery whose owners were adamantly protesting his soda-size limit ban.

"I’m going to help you out, Sonny. I’ll sharpen the lawnmower."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:05:00 +0000

T. Boone Pickens' grandmother Nellie Molonson, declining to re-negotiate after he made a very bad deal with her to mow very big lawns for a dime each. #MyBestMistake

"I might be the only person who worked at 60 Minutes for less than 60 minutes."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:28:00 +0000

Nicholas Thompson, editor of newyorker.com, on his first job out of college. #mybestmistake

"I don't have a single American friend. I don't understand them."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:04:00 +0000

Dead Suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in a 2010 profile by The Comment magazine published by Boston University's College of Communication.

"That’s not a show I’m going to watch."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:04:00 +0000

The initial reaction of HBO President of Programming Michael Lombardo to being pitched 'Game of Thrones'

"Just like American Airlines and General Motors, it will be business as usual for Girls Gone Wild."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:37:00 +0000

A statement by the company which makes videos of college-age women drinking, exposing themselves or having sex after it declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect itself from multi-million-dollar debts and legal awards.

"I’m fascinated by technology. I've always wanted to work directly with a technology company."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:36:00 +0000

Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys, starting at the top as Blackberry's Global Creative Director.

"We have been too content for too long to allow individuals to mow our lawn, serve our food, clean our homes, and even watch our children, while not affording them any of the benefits that make our country so great."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:08:00 +0000

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), on the need for immigration reform.

"It makes us look like a tech company."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:30:00 +0000

Shirley Leung, business editor at The Boston Globe, on a trend by newspapers to lease out desk space made vacant by layoffs, and how it makes the office feel busy again.

"Anyone from New York or New Jersey who contributes one penny to Congressional Republicans is out of their minds. Because what they did last night was put a knife in the back of New Yorkers and New Jerseyans. It was an absolute disgrace."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:56:00 +0000

Peter King, a Republican House member representing New York's 3rd District, upset at his colleagues for suppressing a bill to help victims of Superstorm Sandy.

"If you took out thefts of Apple products — not Galaxies, Samsungs — just Apple products, our total crime rate would be lower than it was last year.”

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:42:00 +0000

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, on the city's 2012 crime statistics.

"As long as he is running the show — he has missed every major trend in tech over the past decade — I have no confidence in the company."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:27:00 +0000

Barry Ritholtz, an asset manager and founder of the well-trafficked blog The Big Picture, on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

"Mommy, I'm OK but all my friends are dead."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:59:00 +0000

A six-year-old girl who survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting by playing dead.

"She certainly didn't break the group up."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:08:00 +0000

Sir Paul McCartney, on Yoko Ono and the decision to disband The Beatles.

"Did everybody become a lousy shot all of a sudden? No."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:06:00 +0000

Jim Pasco, executive director of the National Fraternal Order of Police, on improvements in medical care for gun shot wound victims which have dramatically increased the survival rate over the past two decades.

"They were all flying into Logan Airport for the victory party."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:07:00 +0000

Chrystia Freeland, editor of Thomson Reuters Digital and author of The Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else, on the unwarranted confidence Mitt Romney's big money backers had about the candidate's prospect of winning the 2012 presidential election.

"The job is fun, and the baby is easy."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:15:00 +0000

Marissa Mayer, who thought before becoming Yahoo CEO in July (and a mother in September) that the job would be hard, and that caring for her newborn would be fun.

"The future of content is going to be as much about the medium as the message. Scott gets that in the way few people on this Earth do. He’s perfect mixture of art and science."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:56:00 +0000

Wired Publisher Howard Mittman, on the selection of Scott Dadich as the magazine's next Editor in Chief.

"She's the only person in politics who doesn't have to decide until she decides."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:41:00 +0000

Sean Sweeney, co-founder of the Democratic Super Pac Priorities USA, on Hillary Clinton and the 2016 presidential campaign.

"I have to say the administration, the President himself and FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate have been outstanding with us so far. We have a great partnership with them, and I want to thank the President personally for his personal attention to this."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:15:00 +0000

Gov. Chris Christie (R-NY), on the administration's response to Hurricane Sandy. Christie, a key surrogate for GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, called him personally at midnight to check in.

"A wing-tip cowboy."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:10:00 +0000

President Obama surrogate Robert Gibbs, asked by Chris Matthews to describe Mitt Romney's foreign policy profile, on "Hardball."

"I saw the president I thought I knew, and didn't see last time."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:10:00 +0000

Daily Beast columnist Andrew Sullivan, on President Obama's second debate with Mitt Romney, in a phone interview with Chris Matthews on MSNBC.

"We’ve got a little more to show you.”

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:18:00 +0000

Apple, in an invitation to an event where a littler iPad is expected to be unveiled.

“I don’t consider that being passive, I consider it being effective."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:07:00 +0000

Jim Lehrer, on his stand-offish posture as moderator at the Obama / Romney debate, for which he has been widely criticized.

"I don’t think so much the argument is that he is anti-worker. It’s just that they just don’t like him. He seems like he is completely disconnected from people who have to work for a living."

noreply@blogger.com (John Abell) — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:18:00 +0000

Steve Murphy, a media consultant working on congressional campaigns in Pennsylvania, on why Mitt Romney is losing traction in the battleground state he has now all-but conceded to President Obama.