Organized Crime Quotes

• It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

  Woody Allen

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Years

  "A Look at Organized Crime" by Woody Allen in "Disquiet, Please! More Humor Writing from the New Yorker" by David Remnick, Henry Finder, (p. 364), 2008.

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• It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Law, Police, Enforcement

  "The Sicilian Connection" by Peter Stoler, content.time.com. October 15, 1984.

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• Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Crime, Organized

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• Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

  Raymond Chandler

  Dirty, Dollars, Sides

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.352, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

  Warren Christopher

  Environmental, Collaboration, Borders

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• Mafia is a process,not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan - cooperation to which it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty....Friendship, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience - this was the glue that held us together.

  Joseph Bonanno

  Loyalty, Ties, Together

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• It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.

  Emma Goldman

  Political, Violence, Injustice

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

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• Judges,lawyers an politicians have a license to steal.We don't need one.

  Carlo Gambino

  Judging, Needs, Lawyer

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• I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

  Howard Berman

  Government, Essence, Intellectual

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• You don’t have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our bank accounts. They affect our communications, our pension funds. They even affect the food that we eat and our governments.

  Misha Glenny

  Communication, Sleep, Government

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• Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Political, Preparation, Society

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• Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first.

  Meyer Lansky

  Lying, Firsts, Crime

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• At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to take life is murder, to take liberty is slavery, and to take property is theft. It is the same whether these actions are done by one person acting alone, by the many acting against a few, or even by officials with fine hats and titles.

  Ken Schoolland

  Freedom, People, Liberty

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• Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

  Drew Carey

  Humor, America, Alcohol

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1997.

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• I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade.

  Howard Coble

  Play, Drug, Roles

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• It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Common Humanity, Names

  President Barack Obama's remarks at Clinton Global Initiative at Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers in New York City, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 23, 2014.

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• Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

  David Duke

  Russia, Leader, Mafia

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• [As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work.

  Sam Branson

  Jail, People, Alcohol

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• Never open your mouth,unless you're in the dentist chair

  Sammy Gravano

  Mouths, Dentist, Crime

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• This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.

  Paul Castellano

  Hey, Way, Wonderful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Drugs are available to those who want them. And where are those profits going? Into organized crime, [to criminals] who spend their profits on the destruction of whole societies.

  Sam Branson

  Drug, Criminals, Want

  "Breaking the Taboo" by Sam Branson, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

  Al Capone

  Opportunity, Hands, History

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• Don't worry,don't worry.Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts,all those big society people.They were the worst thieves-and now look at them.It's just a matter of time.

  Meyer Lansky

  People, Worry, Thieves

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Me I never had the chance to say,Well,I'm going to do something I want to do."I always did if for my family,for my children, for my father,for my mother."

  Thomas Gambino

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants

  Dave Beard

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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