Cartels Quotes

• See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

  Milton Friedman

  War, Drug Cartels, Government

  "Friedman & Szasz On Liberty and Drugs". Interview with Randy Paige on "America's Drug Forum", www.druglibrary.org. 1991.

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• We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Government, Oligarchy, Form

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• Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices.

  Benjamin Graham

  Long, Expansion, World

  "World Commodities and World Currencies". Book by Benjamin Graham. Chapter II, The Issue of Cartels, p. 21, 1944.

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• We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends -- the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.

  Friedrich Engels

  Reality, Two, Political

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1959). “Basic writings on politics and philosophy”, Anchor

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• You know, if you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you’re going to go to jail. If it happens repeatedly, you may go to jail for the rest of your life. But evidently, if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night, every single individual associated with this. I think that’s fundamentally wrong.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Home, Sleep, Night

  "Regulators look to punish bankers for money laundering". www.reuters.com. March 7, 2013.

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• People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

  Ed Markey

  Oil, People, Pockets

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 4, 2005.

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• There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Oil, Opec, Free Market

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• The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel

  Ed Markey

  Christian, Lions, Chance

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• The catholic church has a lot more money than any Colombian cartel and they leave a lot more bodies in their wake.

  Doug Stanhope

  Catholic, Church, Body

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• Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Art, Writing, People

  Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion: essays”

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• I was told by journalists who can't publish it that there are in Mexico, close to the U.S. border, big areas that used to be devoted to agriculture that are now devoted to poppies. They say you can't get in there because they're guarded, first by the cartels, but also by the army, which goes hand in hand with the cartels.

  Noam Chomsky

  Army, Hands, Agriculture

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system.

  Tim Wu

  Technology, Typical, Hobbies

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.9, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We will vote for the country we want; we will vote for the future we want; we will vote for the politics we want; and we will vote to put this corrupt government cartel out of business and out of business immediately.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Government, Want

  Source: time.com

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• The number one reason why marijuana is illegal is because the Pharma Cartel does not want you to grow your own medicine. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. The first car ever made ran on hemp oil. Hemp seeds are also the healthiest food on the planet with the highest protein content out of any plant.

  Joe Rogan

  Marijuana, Oil, Medicine

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• There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.

  Charles Bowden

  War, Believe, Two

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• Regrettably, to deactivate an entire cartel also proved to be a difficult task for my father and with all the enemies he had, even more.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Enemy, Tasks

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• Where are the drug cartels getting their weapons? They are being provided by the United States. Cut off that flow of arms.

  Noam Chomsky

  Cutting, Drug Cartels, United States

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• While big-business leaders and firms can be highly productive, servants of consumers in a free market economy, they are also all too often, seekers after subsidies, contracts, privileges, or cartels furnished by big government. Often, business lobbyists and leaders are the sparkplugs for the statist, interventionist system.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Leader, Subsidies

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• The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.

  Vicente Fox

  Responsibility, Fighting, Army

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• You've got Hezbollah in Arizona. You've got Mexican drug cartels operating in Arizona. You've got the steady stream of illegals over the border, and you've got people being killed now in Arizona. They are at their wits' end. Enforcing the law is the overall thing, and if there are some civil rights violations, so be it. That's how desperate the situation is. They want the law anyway.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Rights, Law, Drug Cartels

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• In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.

  Brad Carson

  Thinking, Two, Oil

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• The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was produced by private enterprises in a profit-and-loss system. And losses were at least as important in weeding out failures, as profits in fostering successes. Let government succor failures, and we shall be headed for stagnation and decline.

  Milton Friedman

  Letting Go, Weed, Loss

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• At the highest levels of the medical cartel, vaccines are a top priority because they cause a weakening of the immune system. I know that may be hard to accept, but its true. The medical cartel, at the highest level, is not out to help people, it is out to harm them, to weaken them. To kill them. At one point in my career, I had a long conversation with a man who occupied a high government position in an African nation. He told me that he was well aware of this. He told me that WHO is a front for these depopulation interests

  Jon Rappoport

  Men, Careers, Vaccines

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• The problem we have is not Democrats versus Republicans. It is a Washington cartel. I've said many times the biggest divide we have politically is not between Republicans and Democrats. It's between career politicians in both parties and the American people.

  Ted Cruz

  Party, Careers, People

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over the accreditation process to block innovative, low-cost competitors from entering the market.

  Marco Rubio

  Education, Block, College

  "Rubio slams Clinton, higher ed 'cartel' in policy speech" by Eli Stokols, www.politico.com. July 07, 2015.

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