Thabo Mbeki Quotes

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

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

Bookmaking is the most menacing racket in the entire field of organized crime.

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

We need to coordinate closely with international partners, right down to tightly-coordinated execution of seizures, searches, and arrests, so that instead of capturing a single criminal, we're taking down an entire enterprise.

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

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.

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

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

In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect.

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?

The can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.

When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence.

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

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

Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which began with nails being scattered to cause flat tyres. If the driver stopped, the car would be dismantled in 20 minutes and the parts thrown overboard [to people waiting below]. The system had turned into a kind of destructive device that could be used against people. That was the narrative.

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

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.

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.

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

We do know that the Bandido gang in Houston does drug deal. There are a bunch of people being convicted for heavyweight narcotics trafficking from the gang.

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

The people who steal cars, there's somebody there who is the master, who orders the cars, or just takes a car when it is brought? I am saying the law enforcement authorities have a pretty good idea about a lot of these kind of persons. We want it to pool all that knowledge and all those resources, so that they focus on these people.

Okay, first thing tomorrow we hit the streets around Taccone's place. Somebody saw something.' 'I got it covered.' 'The DiMarcos might be in town.' 'Actually, they're in jail.' 'All seven of them?' Hale shrugged. 'It was an interesting October.