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“I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity.”
“If I wanted to lay down a baby con, I could say I was the product of a broken home. But I'd only be bum-rapping my parents.”
“When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.'”
“I was always accepted at par value. I wore the uniform of a Pan Am pilot; therefore, I must be a Pan Am pilot.”
“I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison.”
“A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage.”
“It's about taking the time to research and think things out. Honest people and criminals do the same thing; just the direction, good or bad, is different.”
“Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy.”
“I served my time and came out of prison when I was just 26 and have worked with the government for 37 years. But people only remember me for what I did before that.”
“Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret.”
“Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating.”
“By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce.”
“Only one thing makes a man a man. He loves his wife, is faithful to her, and puts his wife and kids as the most important things in life.”
“People care about others in their immediate network.”
“I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours.”
“I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City.”
“One thing I've found is that if you educate and show people the risk, they will do something about it.”
“I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.”
“We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth.”
“You have to believe in what you do. Take something you truly believe in and go about it in an honest way.”