Illegal Trade Quotes

If you destroy a free market you create a black market.

I--buy, and I sell." "You're a thief.

People have to cooperate. Many people and traders here try to evade tax. They don’t want to pay tax so they smuggle goods and services into this country to make more money—as much as possible. The also manipulate the foreign currency market.

Every Iranian artist dreams of the black market. We don't care about making money.

Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country is dominated by drug economy and a mafia. Textbook economics does not work in my context, and I have very few recommendations from anybody as to how to put together a legal economy.

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.

Drug traffickers have more and more haystacks in which to hide their contraband needles.

I have read a great deal of economic theory for over 50 years now, but have found only one economic "law" to which I can find NO exceptions: Where the State prevents a free market, by banning any form of goods or services, consumer demand will create a black market for those goods or services, at vastly higher prices. Can YOU think of a single exception to this law?

British authorities were … outraged that Colonial merchants had made illicit fortunes by supplying French forces during the 7 Years War.

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay.

Drug dealers live vicariously through me

Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.

A bootlegger is a bootlegger, a scalper is a scalper.

Our elephants are under siege because of an illegal international market that has driven ivory prices in the region up significantly. I call upon the international community to join us in this fight.

I can see none of you are smugglers; that's why it's so loud.

You don’t have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our bank accounts. They affect our communications, our pension funds. They even affect the food that we eat and our governments.

Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.

Many people think that buying a fake product is harmless, but counterfeiting is estimated to result in annual losses of over $20 billion dollars to American companies.

Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.

Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.

First ship them dope, let them deal to brothers, give them guns, step back and watch them kill each other.

My understanding is that a book becomes a best seller only when it is pirated, sold on footpaths and at traffic lights.

We wish to firmly demonstrate to the world our determination to eliminate all forms of illegal trade in ivory. Poachers and illegal trades in ivory must know that their days are numbered.

Africa is being raped mainly by Asia, but the second largest market for dead endangered animals is the US. Most don't know this is happening. I didn't, but once I found out, I had to try and help.