Chef Mario Batali apologizes for comparing bankers to Hitler and Stalin.

Chef Mario Batali apologized on Nov. 9, 2011 for comparing bankers to Stalin and Hitler the prior day at the TIME Person of the Year panel in New York City. Many bankers suggested boycotting his 20 restaurants after he said, "the ways the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed and taken most of it into their hands is as good as Stalin or Hitler and the evil guys." (.Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Time Warner)