Richard N. Haass Quotes

The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market... the higher the black market price.

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.

I believe I've always been so successful on the black market for a lot of different reasons.

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

Black market sounds negative, but, in fact, everybody loved the black markets during the communist era. It was the only place that officials and others could get shoes and consumer products. There were shortages everywhere. The black market during the Soviet era was essentially the only capitalism there was.

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

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

Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find the criminal economy, the illegal economy, but also those gray areas, gray areas where there is not a proper regulation, where there is not legislation for the economy.

This is a business that works outside the law.

We cannot just be a corridor to smuggle minerals out.

What Brighton's got is a major sea port on either side, good for importing drugs, great for exporting cash, stolen cars, stolen antiques. It's got the largest number of antique shops in the UK, so it's a great place to fence stolen goods. It's got tremendous communication: you've got the sea ports, you've got the channel tunnel, you've got Gatwick Airport 25 minutes away, and London's 50 minutes away by train. So all these escape routes... Which is what villains like.

It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.

Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.

You either make it illegal, in which case you support a huge underground economy or you tax it within the limits people can afford.

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

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

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.

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

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

I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.

Prohibition begets proliferation

The underground economy is not all smugglers. It is hundreds of thousands of otherwise honest people who have withdrawn their consent to be governed.

Obviously crime pays, or there would be no crime.

It’s a giant criminal enterprise, but at least it’s a state.