Andrew Dominik Quotes

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

Most major criminals operating in this country do so because of relationships they have with politicians who allow them to operate.

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

Bookmaking is the most menacing racket in the entire field of organized crime.

Once the state becomes the ultimate beneficiary of crime proceeds, how different is it, really, from being simply the most powerful gang in a battlefield of gangs?

It’s a giant criminal enterprise, but at least it’s a state.

The can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.

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

He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are extremely dangerous.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

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.

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.