Laurence J. Peter Quotes

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

Those involved in organized crime are generally motivated by one thing–profit. Huge sums of money are generated through arms smuggling, trafficking of human beings and narcotic substances, and financial crimes. These monies are laundered so that they have the appearance in our financial system of the proceeds of legitimate business activity.

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

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 think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot.

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.

It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.

'White Collar' is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative crimes in a sometimes very funny way.

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.

I don't know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime.

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.

I rob banks for a living, what do you do?

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.

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

Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.

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.

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

A handbook for gangsters.

Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odorless.

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.

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.