John F. Kennedy Quotes

You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.

I don't care if my opponents are cheating or not.

There are definitely some people who cheat, but how come we're only focusing on people who are on welfare who cheat, and not the bank presidents who cheat?

They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing that street isn't Wall Street.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

What transpired at Semgroup was no less than a $500 billion fraud on the people of the world.

Parents are the biggest culprit. In a bid to make their child score high marks, they are willing to indulge in practices that are unethical, like buying projects. They do not realise that such attempts will not make their child brighter or think over ideas.

There ought to be a national registry of child molesters and insurance company executive because I hold them in the same very low esteem.

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.

Does it really matter that a few find a way to cheat .... should these isolated incidents justify chipping away at the whole system? The small indiscretions can be tolerated; the sanctioning of nationwide neglect of our own cannot.

Certainly he [Richard M. Nixon] is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy.

You can count on the fingers of one hand, and you don’t need all of them, the number of people who went to jail for the Meltdown of 2008. This is in stark contrast to the Savings and Loan Scandal where 750 miscreants went to jail.

A street criminal can steal only what he can carry, but with a stroke of a pen, the dialing of a telephone or the pushing of a computer key, the white collar criminal can and does steal billions.

You can't be the director of education and plagiarizing.

If I rob a gas station, I'm going to get 15 years. If I steal $400 million on Wall Street, I start plea-bargaining.

Those who embezzle public funds should be ready to face the consequences.

Cheating is never to do with how attractive you are.

Cheating is nothing to be proud of.

No matter how small the dishonest deed is, at the end of the day, cheating is cheating.

The cheaters are going to find way to cheat over and over again.