Al Capone Quotes

Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.

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

When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person started to rely more and more on criminals.

He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are extremely dangerous.

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

Prohibition begets proliferation

This is a business that works outside the law.

It did not take me long to discover that Al Capone ran the city. His hand reached into every department of the city and county government.

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

Once the state becomes the ultimate beneficiary of crime proceeds, how different is it, really, from being simply the most powerful gang in a battlefield of gangs?

Those involved in organized crime are generally motivated by one thing–profit. Huge sums of money are generated through arms smuggling, trafficking of human beings and narcotic substances, and financial crimes. These monies are laundered so that they have the appearance in our financial system of the proceeds of legitimate business activity.

The can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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