Leon Uris Quotes

Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man.

The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.

Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.

...people with nothing to declare carry the most.

It was during my first trip to America in 1953 - that's when I learned to visit museums. I was then 26 years old. When I travel, the first thing I do is to visit museums. When I go to New York City, I usually go to Broadway to see the shows.

And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.

Zimbabwe has far fewer tourists than South Africa or Kenya, and there's less crime as well.

I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

Mexico is a safe country.

I hitchhiked to Miami in 1953, and there were oranges laying on the road, black shantytowns, and marinas with nice boats. The museums were virtually empty.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests.

And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.'

These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

Drug smugglers often use juveniles to carry their shipments into the U.S. because they know the juveniles will not be prosecuted if caught.

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, 'Well, what do you need?'

Illegal immigrants all too often swell the ranks of organized crime.

Drug traffickers have more and more haystacks in which to hide their contraband needles.

Today’s fear mongering about international crime frequently relies on dire warnings about “broken borders”. But those who claim that U. S. borders are out of control now forget that those borders were never effectively controlled in the first place. In fact, the United States has always had highly permeable borders. Border smuggling has defined the U. S. Mexican economic relationship from the start; the same is true of the U. S. Canadian relationship.

Take the most effectual measures to arresting, detaining and securing any Gunpowder, or any sort of Arms or Ammunition which may be attempted to be imported into the province under your government.

The [U. S, Border] inspectors were great at finding cocaine hidden in limes from Ecuador. But they had little training in looking for bombs—–and little equipment for detecting material that could be used for a radiation-laced "dirty bomb."

A bootlegger is a bootlegger, a scalper is a scalper.