Jay Leno Quotes

I didn't defraud the government by taking money that was not mine.

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Such a crime as the embezzlement of any of the coins struck at the Mint, or of any of the metals brought to the Mint for coinage, would be punished under the laws of Pennsylvania, by a fine and penitentiary imprisonment at hard labor. The punishment annexed to this crime by the laws of the United States, enacted for the special protection of deposits made at the Mint, is DEATH.

Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed.

My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!

Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.

Where is the money?

If you steal from the American public, whether you use a gas pump or a gun, you ought to do hard time.

Thou shalt not purloin pension funds.

We have decriminalized Wall Street malfeasance.

When you steal from the government, you steal from yourself.

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.

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

At the FBI, very rarely do they investigate crime under $100,000.

Russia has a well-known reputation for corruption; unfortunately, I discovered that it was far worse than many had thought. While working in Moscow I learned that Russian oligarchs stole from shareholders, which included the fund I advised.

We now know, without any shred of uncertainty, that billions of rands of public resources have been diverted into the pockets of a few.

To those who have being stealing government money, it has to come to an end.

I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

Last week convicted Enron crook Ken Lay died of a heart attack. They announced they were going to cremate him. Where he's going, why bother?.

Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.

Did you hear about the accountant who became am embezzler? He ran away with the accounts payable!

In limited professions there's boundless theft.

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.

I don’t think it is right that we spend the money to investigate only to have the laws give immunity retroactively. Maybe there should be protection for political decisions. But if you stole a million dollars you should be treated like a common criminal.

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