Kevin Mitnick Quotes

He has never been more than two steps ahead of the law.

A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.

A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.

I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.

I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison.

Catch me if you can -A

The criminal law stands to the passion of revenge in much the same relation as marriage to the sexual appetite.

The problem is that we have evil people who try to skirt the laws. And that's the problem.

I have a recurring dream where I'm on the run for a horrible thing I did years and years ago. Like, in the dream... because the thing I did was so long ago that it's just a faint memory in my dream, so I'm sort of remembering it as I'm on the run from the police. And I'm totally guilty of it.

What pleases us is that people are realising that punishment is inevitable for those who don't respect the law.

I've never been in trouble with the law.

I think that far too often we let those who commit crimes in our society off far too lightly.

At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.

In 'Maatr,' we do not justify taking the law into our hands. That's not the right thing to do. We are not promoting that.

We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.

But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive. I was a wanted man, a hunted man, with a price on my head. And I was still one step ahead of them. I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

Let the punishment match the offense.

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

The executioner's face is always well hidden.

I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy.

Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.

Any criminal act against any individual or institution in India is to be condemned. The attackers must be strongly punished as per law.

I take the threat of terrorism very seriously, and no one is more committed to hunting down terrorists and bringing them to justice, wherever they live, than I am.