Organized Crime Quotes - Page 2

• In my view, nobody is really effective in tackling those organized crime networks that are making connections from Africa to Asia to fund and facilitate the poaching of massive volumes of ivory, and then selling it on the Asian market. Very few people have tried globally to tackle that serious organized crime threat that is also linked to militia groups. That needs to change. You need to bring the full weight of government attention to dealing with that.

  Allen Crawford

  Government, Views, Ivory

  "Crawford Allen. Senior Director. Traffic. World Wildlife Fund". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that, like my narrator Hannah, I'm a crime writer in my own peculiar way. Crime with a capital "C" is the subject that I'm stuck with - even Sway is about "crime" in a certain way. The nice thing about crime is that it enables you to deal with some big questioO

  Zachary Lazar

  Nice, Narrators, Peculiar

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia.

  Frank Capra

  Fighting, Political, Mafia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Always overpay your taxes.That way you'll get a refund.

  Meyer Lansky

  Way, Crime, Taxes

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• The world is changing and there are new opportunities for those who are ready to join forces with those who are stronger and more experienced.

  Salvatore Maranzano

  Opportunity, Stronger, World

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• First, it is providing a means whereby key individuals on its payroll are able to obtain both power and wealth through granting special favors to certain politically influential groups that are subject to its regulation. This activity is similar to the 'protection racket' of organized crime: for a price, one can induce FDA administrators to provide 'protection' from the FDA itself.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Mean, Dark, Keys

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• Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime.

  Jean Ziegler

  Country, Blood, Switzerland

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.

  Susan Griffin

  Men, Age, Chivalry

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• Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.

  Malachy McCourt

  Compassion, Crime, Facets

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.

  Jonathan Alter

  Character, Fundraising, Presidential

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• Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.

  William J. Clinton

  Crime, Bigs, Bigger

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1416, Best Books on

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• We must regard Sarah Palin as the Carmella Soprano of the GOP -- an enabling wife of organized crime, who sees, hears and speaks no evil of the boys in her old-boy network for whom she does this ideological lap dance.

  Cintra Wilson

  Boys, Speak No Evil, Wife

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• About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

  Howie Carr

  Boston, Years, Covering

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• I was prosecutor for 18 years. I was threatened by drug dealers, murders, and organized crime. This was a walk in the park.

  Tom Marino

  Years, Drug, Parks

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

  Justice, Important, Crime

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• Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

  Mario Puzo

  Inspirational, Movie, Hollywood Films

  The Godfather: Part II (motion picture) (1974). Coauthored with Francis Ford Coppola.

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• The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Technology, Long, Drug

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• A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is must reading for anyone with an interest in the enduring effects of the Vietnam War, the subject of crime in our streets, and the issue of personal responsibility in a harsh, chaotic world.

  Le Ly Hayslip

  War, Reading, Book

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• Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the continent and political violence has decreased considerably, the NRC has decided to treat this as a humanitarian crisis.

  Jan Egeland

  Change, War, People

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• The international community faces ever growing phenomena that transcend borders. I am specifically referring to terrorism, transnational organized crime, the global drug problem, corruption, traffic in persons, sexual exploitation, trafficking of children and adolescents, and smuggling of arms, among others.

  Ollanta Humala

  Children, Community, Drug

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• A handgun ban is not realistically enforceable. Confiscating guns would require house-to-house searches and alienate the very individuals whose compliance is essential to the success of any regulation. If gun ownership were prohibited, organized crime would step in to provide the firearms that will continue to be procured with criminal intent.

  Don Kates

  Gun, House, Regulation

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• The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government corruption, children lured into organized crime and random violence that took the lives of countless innocent people.

  Kurt Schmoke

  Children, Government, Random Violence

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• The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.

  Kitty Kelley

  Writing, Sleep, Ties

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• A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.

  Achim Steiner

  Country, Keys, Effort

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• The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Style, Lightning

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