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" I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering. "

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" One of the most popular scams is what they call account takeover. You write me a check, and I simply go online to a check-printing service and order 200 checks with your account information. "

" Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular. "

" It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again. "

" In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect. "

" Had I been older, I would've never been able to pull it off because I would've analyzed it to death. When I was 16, there was no such thing as 'what if.' "

" You have to be very limited in who you give your social security number to. "

" I think my wife understood from the day I met her how important she was to me and how important it was for me becoming a husband and a father. "

" Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. "

" The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity. "

" Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain. "

" I went from 198 pounds to 109 while I was in prison in France, and I had to tie my clothes on with rope. "

" There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools. "

" One thing I've found is that if you educate and show people the risk, they will do something about it. "

" What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. "

" I know that people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but what I did was immoral, illegal, unethical, and something that I am not proud of - nor will I ever be proud of. "

" Criminals know that if they stay under certain thresholds, nobody is going to come after them. "

" I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot. "

" A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call 'Daddy.' "

" My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS. "

" The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies. "

" Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability. "

" 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. "

" If you tell me your name and date of birth, that's all I need to steal your identity. "

" Too many of us are vulnerable, and I look forward to working with AARP to advise people about the safest ways to conduct their financial transactions and manage social media. "

" I'm so different from the egotistical, self-centred person I was when I did those things. And to watch someone acting out your memories on the screen is like reliving it. Like someone taking you back and showing you what you did. "

" I don't believe that a piece of paper will excuse my actions. In the end, only my actions will. "

" The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it. "

" I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons. "

" 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. "

" I never use debit cards. I only use credit cards. This way, if someone does get my account number... and charges $1 million, by federal law, my liability is zero. "