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Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day! -- Jay Leno
Today is February 14th - St. Valentine's day. Women call it Love day, while men name it as Extortion day. -- Jay Leno
Heck, what's a little extortion among friends? -- Bill Watterson
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions. -- Barbara Tuchman
From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion? -- Thomas Paine
These men of Law and their confederates ... the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up the free-born people of this Nation. -- Bathsua Makin
I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it voluntarily. What it is in Washington is extortion because they all ask for the money. -- John McCain
And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it. -- Jan Brewer
God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure! -- Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government. -- Grover Cleveland
The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost. -- H. L. Mencken
Well, there's a Book that says we're all sinners and I at least chose a sin that's made quite a few people happier than they were before they met me, a sin that's left me with very little time to consider other extremely popular moral misdemeanors, like usury, intolerance, bearing false tales, extortion, racial bigotry, and the casting of that first stone. -- Sally Stanford
As things get worse and the State seems powerless to help, the State will seem less and less legitimate. People will lose their moral connection to it. Laws will seem more like revenue traps and shakedowns. The state will start to seem more like another extortion racket, and, as in Mexico, people will have a harder time telling the good guys from the bad guys. -- Jack Donovan
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...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her. -- E. Sue Blume
We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail. -- Rafael Correa
He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are extremely dangerous. -- Jill Stein
Identity theft, financial laundering, as well as ransom and ransomware - I mean, think of it - all involving extortion of a hacked institution are becoming increasingly common. -- Donald Trump
I was associated with a woman who I was involved with and had a relationship with. She asked for money. I felt as though I was being blackmailed or there was some sort of extortion. -- David Boreanaz

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