Kevin Mitnick Quotes

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

I understand this business. Sometimes there's a lot of corruption. It's boxing.

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

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

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.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

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.

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

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

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

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.

You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders.

Sometimes you have to strike a deal with the Mafia. But remember, the Mafia is not Mother Theresa. We must always keep that in mind.

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot.

I don't know of anything illegal or even unethical that Bert Lance has ever done.

A handbook for gangsters.

Folks who think organised crime is a thing of the past are only kidding themselves.

Not all politicians have a nexus with Veerappan.

I have made only two films on the underworld. I am not educating the people on the underworld.

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.