Able Quote by Will Rogers

To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

— Irene Peter

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

— Ronald Reagan

To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.

— J. Norman Collie

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

— Gregory David Roberts

Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to…

— Jerry Brown

I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in the world today.

— Peter Kirk

If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.

— Carrie P. Meek

Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.

— Anonymous

In a free society, a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt…

— Barney Frank

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

— Barry Goldwater

Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

— Charles Schumer

It's just the stupidest law possible... You're just making criminals out of people who aren't engaged in criminal activity. And we're spending zillions of…

— Morgan Freeman