Barbara Boxer Quotes

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

The subconscious moral sense or the people has come to a distinct realization of the fact that crimes are possible in what we call high finance as they are in lower quarters.

We have even made businessmen return money that they have looted from the Exchequer in the past.

White collar crime must be taken as seriously as any other crime.

Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

The savings and loan scandals grew in the dark basements of official government secrecy.

A person who steals a chicken might go to jail … but a person who steals millions is welcome to be a member of the Federation Council or the Duma.

A special prosecutor follows the money and follows the lies.

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.

Theft and corruption in the private sector is as bad as that in government and must be dealt with decisively by law enforcement agencies.

We're carrying out a real crusade against corruption and impunity with a focus on white-collar crime.

We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime.

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.

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.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.

… the use of office for direct or indirect personal monetary gain

I don't know of anything illegal or even unethical that Bert Lance has ever done.

The best way to rob a bank is to own it.

We have decriminalized Wall Street malfeasance.

Why do I want to remove Najib? I should have thought the whole world would know. This man steals money. Not a few hundred dollars, not a few thousand dollars - he stole billions of dollars, and that has been verified by investigations here in Malaysia and the U.S.