California State Crime Commission Quotes

The lifeblood of organized crime is gambling, and although I have no scruples about a couple of fellows making a wager, the fact of the matter is that organized crime thrives on illicit income from gambling.

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

The can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.

I rob banks for a living, what do you do?

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.

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

A handbook for gangsters.

Who knows what is really going on within a criminal enterprise? Criminals

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.

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.

There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered.

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.

I have such an image of a mafioso.

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

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

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.

I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.