Criminal Syndicates Quotes

In Mafia states government officials enrich themselves and their families and friends while exploiting the money, muscle, political influence, and global connections of criminal syndicates to cement and expand their own power…Top positions in some of the world’s most profitable illicit enterprises are no longer filled only by professional criminals; they now include senior government officials, legislators, spy chiefs, heads of police departments, military officers, and, in some extreme cases, even heads of state and their families.

Mafia states integrate the speed and flexibility of transnational criminal networks with the legal protections and diplomatic privileges enjoyed only by states.

Drugs bring in guns. They bring in all these black-on-black crimes.

I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will.

Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.

The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.

America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous?

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.

When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

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

Now everybody is mafia. You got the Russian mafia, the Mexican mafia. Everybody is mafia these days.