Obviously, crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

 

Obviously, crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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As quoted in "Does Crime Pay" in The Scandal Annual (1987) by the Paragon Project, p. 7

 

G. Gordon Liddy

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People are always shocked when they ask me what I plan to do about crime as governor and my answer comes back as "Nothing!" Does the issue of crime need to be addressed? You bet it does. But, just as with many other social issues, I don't think that legislation is the most effective arena in which to fight crime. We already have tons of laws on the books. Most of those laws would work more effectively if we just enforced them better.
As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.
Politicians always like to say "I'm gonna fight crime!" because it makes them sound great and gets them votes. But what can a politician do to fight crime?

 

Jesse Ventura

 

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

 

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

 

A crime is the violation of the right(s) of other men by force (or fraud). It is only the initiation of physical force against others- i.e., the recourse to violence- that can be classified as a crime in a free society (as distinguished from a civil wrong). Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

 

Ayn Rand

 

Our only crime consisted of decreeing our own laws and applying them to all without exception. Our crime is having enacted an agrarian reform which effected the interests of the United Fruit Company. Our crime is wanting to have our own route to the Atlantic, our own electric power and our own docks and ports. Our crime is our patriotic wish to advance, to progress, to win economic independence to match our political independence. We are condemned because we have given our peasant population land and rights.

 

Jacobo Arbenz Guzman

 

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you meet a lot of interesting people, you travel a lot.

 

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