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The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia. -- Davy Jones
The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want! -- Jerry Seinfeld
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention. -- Douglas Horton
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. -- Steve Allen
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. -- Kurt Vonnegut
There is no rule of law until the Mafia needs lawyers. -- Stephen Holmes
The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out. -- Davy Jones
Once you're in, you're in. It's like the Mafia. Once a Monkee, always a Monkee. -- Davy Jones
Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out. -- Daniel Radcliffe
I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants -- Dave Beard
If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you. -- Jack Handey
It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia. -- Tim Robbins
Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock. -- Yelawolf
I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally. -- James Gandolfini
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. -- Russell Baker
When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths. -- David Chase
Mafia is a process,not a thing.Mafia is a form of clan-cooperation to witch it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty....Frienship,connections,family ties,trust,loyalty,obedience-this was the glue that held us together. -- Joseph Bonanno
Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA. -- Stanley Crouch
The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business. -- Jordan Bridges
We don't think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power. -- Stefano Gabbana
So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the Mafia. So to be more precise, government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices. -- Harry Browne
I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape. -- Glenn Miller
A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today. -- Giuliana Rancic
My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is. -- Louis Gossett, Jr.
In all these years, I've always tried to emphasize and to promote the need to combat the Mafia. Because it is a cancer which is oppressive and which stifles everybody's freedom and reduces the possibility for the areas in which it's present to prosper and to develop. -- Sergio Mattarella
When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I'd like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It's kind of like being in the Mafia. -- Anthony Bourdain
I'm from Indiana. I know what you're thinking, Indiana... Mafia. But in Indiana it's not like New York where everyone's like, 'We're from New York and we're the best' or 'We're from Texas and we like things big' it's more like 'We're from Indiana and we're gonna move.' -- Jim Gaffigan
Communism is as Jewish as the Mafia is Italian. It's a fact that almost all of the convicted spies for communism have been atheist Jews like the Rosenbergs. And international communism was invented by the Jew Karl Marx and has since been led mostly by Jews - like Trotsky. -- George Lincoln Rockwell
Italian-Americans are not the Mafia. -- Chazz Palminteri
The myths die hard, especially within the Mafia. -- Robert D. McFadden
Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. . -- John P. Wheeler III
Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have. -- Marlon Brando
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia. -- Barbara Amiel
The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort. -- Gerald Celente
It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn't refuse to do another movie. -- Sean Connery
I am always with London On Da Track, Wheezy, 808 Mafia Mike Will Made It, Ricky Racks. -- Young Thug
AARP is a large and powerful organization, similar to the Mafia but more concerned about dietary fiber. -- Dave Barry
I bought my wife a little Italian car. A Mafia. It has a hood under the hood. -- Henny Youngman
A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: 'Run your own race, put on your blinders.' -- Joan Rivers
I'm a big fan of Tiesto, and Swedish House Mafia are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them. -- Joe Jonas
You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle. -- James Carafano
And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue. -- Nora Roberts
Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia. -- Jimmy Hoffa
Black Mafia. If they don't understand that, they ain't gangsta. I just watched TV and Bill Parcells kissed two or three of them boys...it's a Mafia thing. -- Lil Wayne
There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile. -- Nelson DeMille
Quite generally, international affairs have more than a slight resemblance to the Mafia. The Godfather does not take it lightly when he is crossed, even by a small storekeeper. -- Noam Chomsky
Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia. -- Tom Folsom
But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long century, and we've had enough of them. -- Bruce Sterling
This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb. -- Maria Semple
I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia. -- Peter Benchley
The only other scenario that could explain everything, up to and including your own bizarre apperance, is a convoluted conspiracy theory involving the Russian Mafia and a crack team of plastic surgeons. -- Eoin Colfer
Mafia guys are all just insecure people who want their money. They're like little seven-year old kids when they don't get their way. I knew guys like that growing up in New Jersey. -- Ray Liotta
The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases. -- Adrian Rogers
As one of the founders of Three 6 Mafia, I would like to see the group get back together, you know. But I am definitely thinking about it and would like to see it happen. -- Juicy J
At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia. -- Philip Zimbardo
We should not let this be like the history of the Mafia, which was allowed to grow into a nationwide organization which infiltrated and corrupted so many areas of society for such a long period of time. -- Donald Trump
In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what does it matter, as long as he puts his garbage out on Tuesdays? -- Hal Higdon
Everyone always says, Does it bother you that Italians are always portrayed as Mafia characters? No, it doesn't bother me. First of all, not everybody in my family is in the Mafia. I have one uncle who's clean. -- Dom Irrera
Mafia is a process,not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan - cooperation to which it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty....Friendship, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience - this was the glue that held us together. -- Joseph Bonanno
Three-6 Mafia, we were always doing different kinds of things, and we like rock music, we like whatever - not saying they was rock, but they had a little rock-n-roll with some of their music, a little rock with it. -- Juicy J
When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit came and it captured me. I continued the books to feed the obvious hunger that was there for heroic fiction. -- Don Pendleton
There are clues in the script... he will say "I think drugs are immoral"'... but the guy who says that kills, tortures, pimps and has whores working for him. There is this strange morality going on, which is rather like the Mafia. -- David Suchet
I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape. -- Glenn Miller
The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion for vengeance and power over other men. For years, the Mafia was the stuff of novels and movies and whispers on Mulberry Street. -- Robert D. McFadden
It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane. -- Clive James
The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly. -- Dominic Cooper
It's good to be back in New York. I have lived here ten years. I'm originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana: Mafia. But the fact of the matter is where I grew up there was something very similar to the Mafia: 4-H. -- Jim Gaffigan
Before you lost your mind, how did you make a living?" "I was a hitman for the Mafia. Are you done crying yet?" "I wasn't crying! And I wish you were a hitman because, if I had money, I'd hire you right this minute to knock yourself off. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia bosses do not have any guilt feelings either, or maybe their remains are just well hidden in the cellar. Even aborted guilt feelings...All men need guilt feelings. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there. -- Johnny Kelly
Russia is a mafia state today, and Putin is its top godfather. -- Garry Kasparov
It's like the mafia. Once you're in - your in. There's no getting out. -- Kelly Slater
The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known. -- David Remnick
I am originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana - mafia. -- Jim Gaffigan
The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s. -- Robert Loggia
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. -- David Remnick
I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin. -- James Gandolfini
Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB. -- Martin Cruz Smith
Ultimately, I'd love to see a legacy company that has alumni that come out of it and go on to create other big things. A maple-syrup mafia, a HootSuite mafia. -- Ryan Holmes
I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don't understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness. -- Sophie Hannah
I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver. -- Chazz Palminteri
One thing I would like to see in Vancouver and Canada is something similar to the PayPal mafia. They were all early employees of PayPal. They all had monster exits with PayPal, and they were able to take their winnings and form a syndicate that co-invests. -- Ryan Holmes
24' and 20th Century Fox and Sky TV are not responsible for training the U.S. military. It is not our job to do. To me, this is almost as absurd as saying, 'The Sopranos' supports the mafia, and by virtue of that, HBO supports the mafia.' -- Kiefer Sutherland
You know, Castle's the kind of guy that when he meets somebody, that's a connection for him. He remains connected to the people that he meets. That's the kind of guy he is, be they criminals, gangster rappers, mafia guys, art thieves, whoever it is, he nurtures those relationships. -- Nathan Fillion
International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places. -- Noam Chomsky
One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have the right alliances, because one is not given support. In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect. -- Giovanni Falcone
Guilt is the mafia of the mind. -- Robert Mandel
They's making it worse, the labor movement got the mafia curse. -- Frank Zappa
International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia. -- Noam Chomsky
Work harder, work longer, and earn less because the mafia needs your money. -- Gerald Celente
The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes. -- Milos Zeman
Now everybody is mafia. You got the Russian mafia, the Mexican mafia. Everybody is mafia these days. -- Joe Arpaio
People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60. -- James Caan
There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia. -- Kurt Vonnegut
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
Cool thing about Fidel Castro is that the CIA and the mafia - which are both terrible organizations that tried to murder him again and again - haven't succeeded. -- Ian Svenonius
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. -- David Duke
I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just dont understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness. -- Sophie Hannah
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? -- Yulia Tymoshenko
Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a mafia; textbook economics does not work in my context. -- Ashraf Ghani
When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime. -- Josef Skvorecky
The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al. ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden. -- William Blum

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