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Quotes About Mafia

We're doing it because he's trying to look like a respectable member of the family and not the fucking mafia,' Dex snapped. He grimaced at Ethan. 'Sorry, man, but seriously--this is some fuckin' suit.' Ethan looked at himself and his spiffy shiny cuffs and sighed. 'I was going for grown-up,' he confessed. Kane was the one who said it. 'Well, what you got was connected, but that's okay, right? Because, you know, better a hired killer than a porn star.'
~ Amy Lane
One thing I take great pride in is that my case was the one that started the decline of the Mafia.
~ Joseph D. Pistone
Violence, as it is for the mafia and most other criminal organizations, was bad for pirate business. By doing battle with prey, pirates risked damage to their own ships and injury to their crews. It also made them bigger targets for law enforcement.
~ Robert Kurson
Wisdom of the Ages: "Government" Like a mafia protection racket-without the protection.
~ Matthew Heines
He was the antithesis of the gaudy mafiosi
~ Dick Lehr
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
Everyone thought the mob was done after RICO.... And they were. Then the Towers came down. Overnight, the feds shifted three-quarters of their personnel into anti-terrorism and the mob made a comeback. Shit, they even made a fortune overcharging for debris removal from Ground Zero.... 9/11 saved the mafia.
~ Don Winslow
The mob guys know it. They know that you bribe a politician only once. After that, you blackmail him.
~ Don Winslow
I loved the Godfather. I thought that was the best interpretation of our life that Ive ever seen. Godfather I and Godfather II - the other one stunk.
~ Sammy Gravano
The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!
~ Jerry Seinfeld
Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.
~ Johnny Kelly
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 concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me.
~ Paul Watson
Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes.
~ Cesar Romero
Strike read how Chiswell the corrupt capitalist had been murdered by the Russian mafia after failing to pay back interest on some seedy, illegal transaction, while Chiswell the defender of solid English values had been dispatched by vengeful Islamists after his attempts to resist the rise of sharia law.
~ Robert Galbraith
We Italians will kill you," a John Gotti associate once warned a potential snitch over a government wire. "But the Russians are crazy—they'll kill your whole family.
~ Robert I. Friedman
Lefty When they send for you, you go in alive, you come out dead, and it's your best friend that does it.
~ Donnie Brasco
Lefty Wise guy dont carry wallets, they carry their money in a roll....beaner on the outs
~ Donnie Brasco
I said, "Is there!" I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math — if Johnny has ten fingers and they cut off two, how many does he have left?
~ Joan Rivers
They are sick of their country's being seen as nothing more than a mafia-ridden kleptocracy—even though they are the first to complain about corruption.
~ Anne Garrels
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
Legislating morality doesn't work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia.
~ John Densmore
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
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
~ Barbara Amiel