Criminal law Quote by Emily Thornberry

It is clear that too many bankers think that laws are for the little people.

— Emily Thornberry

If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of…

— Elizabeth Warren

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

— Jesse Jackson

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

— Thomas Hobbes

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law.

— William K. Black

We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.

— Jim Talent

Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority;…

— Michel de Montaigne

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because…

— William Graham Sumner

Apparently modern financial regulators are vastly more sophisticated than we were as financial regulators 25 years ago - because we had never figured out…

— William K. Black

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of…

— Anonymous

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

— Oliver Goldsmith