Jimmy Hoffa Quotes

What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.

Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work." "He's mexican" Troy added.

Never piss off a gangster.

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

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

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some Wop.

The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.

My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were no joke. And he was their master carpenter. He used to build their homes, and all I saw when I was 11 years old were dead bodies and tommy guns and stogies, and backrooms, you know, Drexel Wine and Liquor, with the big piles of money underneath.

I knew most of the people there who ran the places, a lot of wiseguys. They're all gone now. All good people.

How can I be a gangster, if I worked for the KGB? It is absolutely ridiculous.

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

We do not fear you [the Mafia] any more. We will root you out from under every rock, from the dark places where you hide.

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….

The internal and international criminal gang will either be forced to work or simply exterminated.

The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.

We should not let this be like the history of the mafia which was allowed to grow into a nationwide organization which infiltrated and corrupted so many areas of society for such a long period of time.

In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.

I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents.

What I like about Layer Cake is its intelligent through-line. First of all, I think it's very close to the truth; I think this is what successful drug dealers are like. They don't drive around in flashy cars, they don't show off, they behave very quietly, they get on with their job and they earn lots of money. And it goes up and up and up and up the scale. Secondly - and selfishly - I like the moral aspect of the movie, which is that violence has consequences, and you feel emotionally involved with the violence.

The Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierachy because if their members were "raping children, they'd off them."

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.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Jacare is a gangster. He's been in the game for a long time.

We want 'McMafia' to be a tense gangster story but also a family story. It's a collusion of those two worlds.