“People can’t even afford rent anymore. He can’t go on in this palace of

“People can’t even afford rent anymore. He can’t go on in this palace of denial.”

Matt Weinstein

A motivational speaker who lost the bulk of his savings in the scheme, saying Madoff should not be allowed to await sentencing in his $7 million Manhattan penthouse if the financier pleads guilty.

“Children were sitting at their tables, with pencils still in their hands, their heads fallen over on the table. Most of them had shots in their head — it must have all happened in seconds.”

Ralf Michelfelder

Police director in Winnenden, Germany, describing the scene in a high school classroom where a 17-year-old killed nine students and a teacher and then went on to kill five other people before taking his own life.