Emily Thornberry Quotes

I believe we have been fleeced.

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.

Those who perpetrate fraud against our financial institutions will be met with the full force of law enforcement.

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

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.

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

The only area in our society in which I favor more regulation is controlling fraud. Fraud harms markets and more important, fraud harms families.

You probably will always believe there should be a law against [financial market] fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.

We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery cost U.S. taxpayers $3.8 billion annually. Securities fraud alone costs four times that. And securities fraud is nothing to the cost of oil spills, price-fixing, and dangerous or defective products. Fraud by health-care corporations alone costs us between $100 billion and $400 billion a year. No three-strikes-and-you're-out for these guys. Remember the S&L scandal? $500 billion.

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

You should not be taking advantage of anybody.

We're constantly having to go head-to-head with the Bernie Madoffs of the world who just want more and more money.

The Fraud Act 2006 makes it perfectly clear that Libor rigging is prosecutable as a criminal offence.

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

Britain is the epicentre of financial fraud. Most major players outsource their fraud here because London is the unregulated cesspit of global finance.

I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.

Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.

And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you.

If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.

There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.

I love advertising because I love lying. I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.

So far I’m not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.