Bob Corker Quotes

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off.

It is clear that the original idea of the Iranians [to produce nuclear weapons] has been stopped by this agreement.

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away.

A certain portion of the human race / Has certainly a taste for being diddled.

The Soviet Union prepared to test [nuclear weapons] while we were at the table negotiating with them. If they fooled us once it is their fault; if they fool us twice, it is our fault.

… one of the world's most disgraceful scams

Ultimately all the options are ugly… These decisions are very, very difficult

A scam is a scam. A fraud is a fraud. Different rules don't apply in the City than they do for you and me.

I had a gentleman steal or 'misplace' - I guess I should say 'allegedly' - a lot of money from me. It didn't make any sense when it was happening, because I just didn't understand why I didn't have any money. I was a perfect mark because I had all of this shame and insecurity about money.

Three-card monte is one of the most persistent and effective cons in history. The games still pop up along city streets. But we tend to dismiss the victims as rubes.

Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.

You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.

Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

My family has something of a special relationship with confidence tricks: my grandfather was a professional swindler.

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'

In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in a mistaken way and deceived the international community.

I've been racketeered on.

The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.

The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.