“The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels.” ImportantUseShowsWhitePowerfulDrugToolsRingsAggressiveTradingCollarsInsidersWhite CollarCartelsDrug CartelsInsider Trading Author:Preet Bharara
“I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little comfortable suburban house in Michigan, looking at CNN and saying, "Oh, those poor immigrant children that are all coming across the border. But we really can't have them here - that isn't what God wants. Let's send them all back to the drug cartels." There's a complacency to it.” ThinkingWantMeanChildrenLittlesHousePoorNiceDrugComfortableCertaintyUncertaintyBordersImmigrantsComplacencyMichiganCnnCartelsDrug Cartels Author:Stephen King
“These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels.” ChildrenLawSocialSecurityDrugPureSafeLaborSafetyWorkersCivilizedMinimumWagesSocial SecurityMonopolyCompensationMedicareMinimum WageCivilized SocietyMarkersChild LaborCartelsLabor Laws Author:Bill Moyers
“Where are the drug cartels getting their weapons? They are being provided by the United States. Cut off that flow of arms.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesCuttingArmsDrugWeaponsFlowCartelsDrug Cartels Author:Noam Chomsky
“The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government.” PeopleBelieveGovernmentLevelsOur LivesCallingDrugShotsDeeperLatinLatin AmericaLatin AmericanTentaclesCartelsDrug CartelsCalling The Shots Author:William Colby
“We have a massive heroin opioid epidemic problem in America, part of that is because of drugs coming from the cartels from the south.” ProblemAmericaDrugSouthMassiveEpidemicsHeroinCartelsOpioids Author:Paul Ryan
“See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.” IfsLooksWarGovernmentViewsRolesEconomicDrugProtectPoint Of ViewWar On DrugsCartelsDrug Cartels Author:Milton Friedman