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  • Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

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

    Technology   Long   Drug  
  • 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.

    Country   Keys   Effort  
  • 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."

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

    Boston   Years   Covering  
  • 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.

    Change   War   People  
  • 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.

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

    Funny   Witty   Humorous  
  • 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.

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

    Way   Crime   Taxes  
  • 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.

    Russia   Leader   Mafia  
  • 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.

    War   Reading   Book  
  • 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.

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

    Drug   Criminals   Want  
    "Breaking the Taboo" by Sam Branson, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • 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.

    Play   Drug   Roles  
  • 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.

  • I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure

    Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.6, A&C Black
  • 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.

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

    Years   Drug   Parks  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • 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.

    "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.
  • Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

  • 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.

    Gun   House   Regulation  
  • 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.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

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