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" 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. "

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" A lot of times, when I met somebody and took them out on a date, I obviously didn't tell them my background, because I didn't think I'd see them but once or twice. "

" When people write about me, they usually start off with the headline 'World's Greatest Con Man.' "

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

" I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison. "

" We really need to get control over Social Security numbers. My children's generation, they're past it. But their children should be able to have a number that is secure. "

" If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity. "

" Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret. "

" If I had walked into a dry cleaning store, and I had looked over, and the register drawer was open with money inside, I wouldn't have taken it. "

" You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone. "

" You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education. "

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

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

" I went to the library and learned how checks work. I found out that routing numbers are like zip codes: the checks are sent to the bank that correlates to the routing number. If I manipulate those numbers to a bank far away, it would take longer to get back to the bank, which gave me more time to write more bad checks. "

" We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what's to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern. "

" 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 kept a notebook, a surreptitious journal in which I jotted down phrases, technical data, miscellaneous information, names, dates, places, telephone numbers, thoughts, and a collection of other data I thought was necessary or might prove helpful. "

" You have to believe in what you do. Take something you truly believe in and go about it in an honest way. "

" Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to. "

" The Internet can be used to hurt many people. "

" Most people don't recognize me, but they know my name. TSA people rarely recognize my name, ironically, and they are the security people. "

" When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print. "

" 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 think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences. "

" Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly. "

" The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will. "

" While I was on an undercover assignment in Texas, I met my wife, Kelly. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay. "

" I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it and blew the bulk of the bundle on fine threads, gourmet foods, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, fine wheels, and other sensual goodies. "