Crime Syndicate Quotes

In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect.

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.

Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public benefactor. I remember one time when he arrived at his box seat in Dyche Stadium for a Northwestern football game on Boy Scout Day, and 8,000 scouts got up in the stands and screamed in cadence, 'Yea, yea, Big Al. Yea, yea, Big Al.'

Where previously the international underworld was a world of local, often-warring mafia territories, it has become globalised. The criminal has become corporate, and the corporate has become criminal. Organised crime has become very organised indeed.

The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there.

I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.

I don't know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime.

Who knows what is really going on within a criminal enterprise? Criminals

Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which began with nails being scattered to cause flat tyres. If the driver stopped, the car would be dismantled in 20 minutes and the parts thrown overboard [to people waiting below]. The system had turned into a kind of destructive device that could be used against people. That was the narrative.

I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents.

The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?

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

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.

'The Godfather' changed the way gangsters acted.

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

Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row

The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.

You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.

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

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

International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.

There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered.

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.