Frank J Loesch Quotes

I went to high school with Al Capone.

They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

The only way to clean up Chicago is to get rid of Capone.

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

I took several trips to New Orleans and met with people who had intimate knowledge of the underbelly of the city in the 1950s. The meetings were both fascinating and terrifying.

I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.

Now nobody get nervous, you ain't got nothing to fear. You're being robbed by the John Dillinger Gang, that's the best there is!

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

Everybody calls me a racketeer. I call myself a business man. When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lake Shore Drive [in Chicago] it's hospitality.

[Milwaukee in 1912] was in the grasp of the sinister and slimy hand of special interests, dive-keepers, crooked contractors, petty racketeers, and political bosses. The city was then as graft-ridden as any other.

The can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.

I was always interested in the 1920s and the gangster world, in general.

The Capone gang was actually a public utility; it supplied what the people wanted and demanded.

Yeah, I love 'Boardwalk Empire.'

Among the many things 'Boardwalk Empire' is, is a gangster show.

Al Capone's my uncle. The old days were a lot different. The Latin Casino was the big time. When I got there I figured that I was doing pretty good, because remember, I started in nothing but after hours joints. I can't even name them now, but that's how I got noticed.

When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion.

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.

When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia.

Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.

I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully.