The Big Short (film)

"[Regarding Vennett] I cant hate him. Hes so transparent in his self-interest, that I kind of respect him. Would I buy a car from him? No."

"[On the phone] Let me ask you this: What company treats its customers that shittily and succeeds?...Fine, okay, Goldman."

"Its two simple questions: Is there a bubble? And if there is, how exposed are the banks?"

"So, mortgage bonds are dog shit, and CDOs are dog shit wrapped in cat shit?"

"I have a feeling in a few years people are going to be doing what they always do when the economy tanks. They will be blaming immigrants and poor people."

"Lawrence, I dont know how to be sarcastic."

"They knew. They knew the taxpayers would bail them out. They werent being stupid; they just didnt care."

"We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball... What bothers me isnt that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually, you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did."

"[Last line of the movie] Okay...sell it all."

"Im going to try to find moral redemption at the roulette table."

"The NSA has a $52-billion budget and the ability to monitor tens of millions of calls a second. You think theyre not using it?"

"Were going to wait and were going to wait and were going to wait until they feel the pain until they start to bleed."