Howie Carr Quotes

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.

We do have endemic corruption, but most of it is not political.

I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials . . . from Hell's Angels, Black Panthers and Chicano street fighters to Roxanne Pulitzer and even Richard Nixon, back in the good old days before he was run out of the White House for fraud, perjury, graft, and criminal negligence.

I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'

Most major criminals operating in this country do so because of relationships they have with politicians who allow them to operate.

Organized crime has a corrupting influence on all Bulgarian institutions including the government, parliament and judiciary. In an attempt to maintain their influence regardless of who is in power, organized crime figures dominate all the major political parties. As these figures have expanded into legitimate businesses, they have attempted—with some success—to buy their way into the corridors of power….

Folks who think organised crime is a thing of the past are only kidding themselves.

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.

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.

I don't know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime.

There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.

People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.

In Nigeria, corruption remains a way of life, especially in government and business.

You can’t have a corrupt lobbyist if you don’t have a corrupt Congressman or staff member…. It’s a team effort.

Tom Delay is a bag man for cigarette companies.

Lobbying is declared to be a crime.