Donald Trump Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

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.

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.

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

People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was interesting to me that he clearly had to know that there was such a thing as organized crime and organized criminals as far back as the '20s.

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

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

It’s a giant criminal enterprise, but at least it’s a state.

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….

What I learned about the mob wasn't through lectures at the academy.

It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

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

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