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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. -- Howie Carr
Mmm... Organized Crime -- Homer Simpson
Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar. -- Raymond Chandler
It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime. -- Rudy Giuliani
I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime. -- Howard Berman
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. -- Woody Allen
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. -- Drew Carey
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. -- Howard Coble
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
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. -- Michael K. Simpson
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime. -- William J. Clinton
I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants -- Dave Beard
Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders. -- Warren Christopher
I was prosecutor for 18 years. I was threatened by drug dealers, murders, and organized crime. This was a walk in the park. -- Tom Marino
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
It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act. -- Emma Goldman
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." -- Thomas Gambino
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
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
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. -- Kitty Kelley
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. -- Al Capone
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. -- Jan Egeland
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. -- Cintra Wilson
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. -- Susan Griffin
I think money laundering is giving oxygen to organized crime. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime. -- Josefina Vazquez Mota
The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime! -- Evel Knievel
People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive. -- Calvin Klein
The trial organized with U.N. participation of some kind will be for crimes committed by Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975 to 1979. That's it. -- Hun Sen
What Mexico City cannot do and my country cannot do is to allow us to be intimidated, the authorities to be intimidated, by organized crime. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime. -- Pauline Marois
The rumors of Frank Sinatra's 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. -- Kitty Kelley
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. -- Louis Stokes
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. -- Louis Stokes
J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was interesting to me that he clearly had to know that there was such a thing as organized crime and organized criminals as far back as the '20s. -- Terence Winter
Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar. -- Raymond Chandler
Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime. -- Malachy McCourt
[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work. -- Sam Branson
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 -- John Warren Kindt
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. -- Sam Branson
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. -- Jean Ziegler

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