Crime Never Pays Quotes

#1. My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'

Hamilton Jordan

#2. Do you want to be good or do you want to be whole? - Carl Jung

Lee Lipsenthal

#3. I'd hate to be putting a bullet in a lawman, so I'd appreciate ye lowerin' yer weapon, sir.

Karen Witemeyer

#4. This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating punishment. Every defendant pays a price.

William Landay

#5. This morning the secret has claws. And it's climbing the walls of my stomach, twisting my gut, quivering and rolling and burning. Red-hot acid in the back of my throat. Ready to explode.

Courtney C. Stevens

#6. Here, where we had done the most of our growing up, the old family home had been a fortress against the world. This is something that the children of immigrants all know.

Robert Laxalt

#7. I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.

Ving Rhames