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“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.”

Government Balance Politician Checks Officials Businessman Mafia Crooked Make Out Government Officials Crooked Politicians

Book:Reflections

Source: Reflections

“I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants”

Funny Together Crime Humorous Labor Witty Organized Restaurants Mafia Lumps Organized Religion Organized Crime Organized Labor

Author:Dave Beard

“At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do with catching criminals, it has nothing to do with the Mafia, the syndicate, it has nothing to do with trust-busting, it has nothing to do with interstate commerce, it has nothing to do with anything but serving as a church for the mediocre. A high church for the true mediocre.”

Mean Church Bottom Criminals Communism Serving Commerce Mediocre Catching Mafia Detectives Fbi E Commerce Interstate Busting Syndicate

Author:Norman Mailer

“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.”

Together Form Individual Process Crime Members Connections Loyalty Obedience Ties Witch Cooperation Lifelong Mafia Pledge Glue Clans Organized Crime Family Ties Loyalty Friendship

Author:Joseph Bonanno

“No one will ever kill me, they wouldn't dare”

Murder Killing Dare Criminals Daring Kill Me Mafia Mobster

Author:Carmine Galante

“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?”

Ifs Men Long Doe Matter Bigs Happens Running Next Cities Doors He Man Distance Bags Runners Garbage Mafia Long Distance Tuesday Slums Big Cities Landlord Does It Matter Distance Runner

Author:Hal Higdon

“Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.”

Class Capitalism Ruling Mafia Gangsters Racket Bootlegging

Author:Al Capone

“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.”

Thinking Knows Years Matter Facts New York Grew Ten Grew Up Mafia Indiana

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.”

I Can Wanted Remember Film Movie Mafia Gangsters Fellas Greatest Movie Mobster Iconic Movie Quotable Movie Gangster Movie

Author:Ray Liotta

“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.”

Thinking Want Littles Character Bits Violence Little Bit Starting Bother Get Away Mafia

Author:James Gandolfini

“Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.”

Italian Mafia Italian American Russian Mafia

Author:Chazz Palminteri

“Just when you thought the mafia novel was dead, Tod Goldberg breathes new life into it. Gangsterland, the best mafia novel in years, is a dark, funny, and smart page-turning crime story. It's also a moving, thoughtful meditation on ethics, religion, family, and a culture that eats itself. I loved this book.”

Years Book Stories Moving Culture Dark Novel Meditation Crime Pages Smart Ethics Breathe Thoughtful New Life Mafia Pages Turning

Author:Sara Gran

“Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.”

Harry Potter Potters Mafia

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“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.”

People Years Today School Forever Jokes High School My Family Call Me Princess Rumor Mafia Russian Mafia

Author:Giuliana Rancic

“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.”

Doe States Able Dies Given Support Protect Servant Mafia Alliances

Author:Giovanni Falcone

“It's like the mafia. Once you're in - your in. There's no getting out.”

Surfing Mafia Surf Surfer

Author:Kelly Slater

“The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.”

Matter Organization Triumph Humanist Mafia Sirens Good Against Evil Struggle Between Good And Evil

Book:The Sirens of Titan

Source: The Sirens of Titan

“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.”

Knows Done School Culture Parent Dog Crime Politician Police Committed Liars Mafia Cia Popular Culture Scum

Author:Stanley Crouch

“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.”

Long Book Stories Reading Prison Etc Mafia Pioneers Vikings Fictional Stories Prison Time

Author:Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.

“Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. .”

Running Political Congress Protection Mafia Racket

Author:John P. Wheeler III

“If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite.”

Ifs Want Book Philosophy Spiritual Science Lying Can Do Justice Morality Okay Opposites Shame Atheist Recognition Behave Preaching Cheat Agnostic Decency Mafia

Author:Dennis McKinsey

“Once you're in, you're in. It's like the Mafia. Once a Monkee, always a Monkee.”

Mafia

Author:Davy Jones

“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.”

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Book:The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld

Source: The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld

“Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.”

Opportunity Mafia

Author:Johnny Kelly

“I am originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana - mafia.”

Thinking Knows Funny Mafia Indiana

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“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.”

People Thinking Men Made Sports Shoes Insane Impulse Shirts Classic Splits Worn Retired Mafia Buyers

Author:Clive James

“The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.”

World Party Known Communist Mafia Communist Party

Author:David Remnick

“You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.”

Knows Home Church Sin Streets Bullshit Mafia Mobster Gangster Movie Mean Streets

Author:Martin Scorsese

“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.”

Doe Country Inspiration Motivation Economy Taught Drug Economics University Useless Afghanistan Elites Mafia Textbooks

Author:Ashraf Ghani

“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.”

Book War Bits Fiction Hunger Obvious Statements Vietnam Heroic Mafia Captured

Author:Don Pendleton

“Prohibition has made nothing but trouble”

Made Trouble Mafia Prohibition Gangsters

Author:Al Capone

“Koopsta Knicca, Gangsta Boo, Lord Infamous and Crunchy [Black]. The name of the group is Da Mafia 6iX. So like I said we can't consider it a Three 6 Mafia reunion without all the members of the [group] being in it so we'll just say that it's a reunion of members of the Mafia that created a totally new group called Da Mafia 6iX. [Fans] are going crazy about it on Twitter, they happy as hell, they've been waiting on this for years, some of these members have been gone since 2000, you know, it's 2013.”

Knows Years Has Beens Said Three Names Waiting Black Lord Gone Hell Groups Crazy Fans Members Mafia Reunion Infamous Going Crazy Gangsta Crunchy

Author:DJ Paul

“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.”

Men Needs Wells Feelings Remains Guilt Monsters Boss Mafia Brutes Cellars Either Or Guilt Feelings Himmler

Book:On conscience: two essays

Source: On conscience: two essays

“The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.”

Mafia

Author:Davy Jones

“I'm a big fan of TIËSTO, and SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.”

Want Bigs House Fans Mafia Swedish Russian Mafia

Author:Joe Jonas

“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.”

Ifs Want Children Guy Father Grew Safe Grew Up Neighborhood Italian Cousin Mafia Nephew Niece My Niece Niece And Nephew Russian Mafia

Author:Louis Gossett, Jr.

“The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.”

Liberty Protect Members Mafia

Author:Barbara Amiel

“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...”

School Walks Students High School Hollywood Tables Get Up Mafia Cafeteria

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“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.”

Want Kind House Shore Magnificent Estates Mafia Profile High Profile Russian Mafia

Author:Nelson DeMille

“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.”

Used Ridiculous Code Mafia Sociopath Sopranos Used To Love Russian Mafia

Author:David Chase

“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.”

Problem Leader Crime Russia Organized Mafia Organized Crime Russian Mafia

Author:David Duke

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