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Quotes About Mafia

Asking government to report inflation is like asking mafia to report on crime.
~ Peter Schiff
Lo Stato greco è l'unica mafia al mondo che è riuscita a fare bancarotta. Tutte le altre si sviluppano e prosperano.
~ Petros Markaris
If all the fish in the sea kept their mouths shut, they'd never get caught" is an often repeated mantra in the world of organized crime.
~ Philip Carlo
Richard Kuklinski was Roy DeMeo's Luca Brasi.
~ Philip Carlo
the humanitarian workers [in refugee camps in Goma} were treated rather like the service staff at a seedy mafia-occupied hotel: they were there to provide-food, medicine, housewares, an aura of respectability
~ Philip Gourevitch
I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia.
~ Brenda Lee
People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.
~ James Caan
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
Whether one is dealing with the state, the Mafia, parents, pimps, police, or husbands, the heavy price of institutionalised protection is always a measure of dependence and agreement to abide by the protector's rules
~ Wendy Brown
The Central Intelligence Agency, America's best-known spy shop. In that fearful post-Joe McCarthy era, when assassinated JFK had publicly loved James Bond and secretly been entangled in covert intrigues like assassination plots against Cuba's Fidel Castro outsourced to the Mafia by our spies, the CIA was a myth-shrouded invisible army. In those pre-Internet days before electronic books, Web sites with varied credibility, and search
~ James Grady
Well, you can't go about having blood feuds and stabbing each other like Crosicans or the Mafia," said the Colonel. "Say what you like, trial by jury is a sound system
~ Agatha Christie
Când un bobârnac aleatoriu face s? se n?ruie castelul din c?r?i de joc, care s-ar fi putut surpa mult mai devreme sau mult mai târziu, descoperim peisajul postcomunist: mafio?i ?i semivagabonzi care nu mai au energie nici m?car s?-?i aminteasc?.
~ Alain Besançon
When I joined the industry there were mafia like Haji Mastan and Vardharajan. They had a healthy relationship with film stars. Their men never came calling for 'petis' and 'khokas.' In fact they used to felicitate film personalities.
~ Raza Murad
'Goodfellas' has kind of got it all. That was probably one of my favorite films as a kid, so I carried a picture of 'Goodfellas' in my wallet.
~ Mel Rodriguez
Between 'The Godfather,' 'The Sopranos,' 'Goodfellas,' and the countless other mob stories that have been both critically and commercially acclaimed over the years, it's not hard to see why a game like 'Mafia Wars' works.
~ Jason Schreier
Conant was worried too. He believed that the Mafia, who maintained strong links to bathhouses in other cities, was behind the quick changes in the health director's thinking.
~ Randy Shilts
Organized crime is just the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
~ Raymond Chandler
Se ha dicho que cada gobierno tiene su capo.
~ Ricardo Ravelo
Quarter were a regular retail mafia; the owner and Dahveed probably took each other's UPS deliveries. But it was a good place to regroup. She pretended
~ Julie Smith
Je wahnsinninger alles um uns herum wird, desto normaler komme ich mir selbst vor. Mafiaboss mit achtzehn? Gestaltwandler? Verliebt in die eindeutig verrückteste Rosa der Welt? Alles ein Klacks gegen dieses Irrenhaus da draußen.
~ Kai Meyer
Work harder, work longer, and earn less because the mafia needs your money.
~ Gerald Celente
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
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
~ Mario Puzo, The Godfather
America has three major crime families; the Mafia, the Republicans and the Democrats. The one least likely to endanger or fleece the average taxpayer is the Mafia.
~ David Gustafson