Quotation

“Face it, if crime didn’t pay, a lot less people would be criminals.”

Does anyone know the source of the above quotation?

I hope I have the right forum this time.

Gordon Liddy, I believe. Anyway, it certainly sounds like something he would say!

Yes, It was Liddy:

“One of the biggest lies in the world is that crime doesn’t pay. Of
course, crime pays.”

–G. Gordon Liddy (1930-)
(from Random House Webster’s Quotationary)