Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?

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

— Jill Stein

I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it voluntarily. What…

— John McCain

“They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our doors and…

— Kamand Kojouri

When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and…

— Grover Cleveland

Well the thing is that under the [Ronald] Reagan administration, excesses have occurred in terms of over regulating certain types of behavior, and excesses…

— Frank Zappa

Well, there's a Book that says we're all sinners and I at least chose a sin that's made quite a few people happier than…

— Sally Stanford

Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and…

— Henry A. Wallace

The law provides a remedy, charging those who threaten a victim's data for the purpose of extortion. Extending criminal liability to innocent third-party digital…

— Perianne Boring

“None of us has an obligation to accept the definitions of ‘respect’ and ‘gratitude’ our parents espoused, especially when those definitions can be used…

— Lukasz Laniecki

God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion,…

— Anonymous

No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Bribe is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. The X makes it sound cool.

— Bender (The Cartoon Character

“From the first extortion he had accepted, from the first directive he had obeyed, he had given them cause to believe that reality was…

— Ayn Rand

As things get worse and the State seems powerless to help, the State will seem less and less legitimate. People will lose their moral…

— Jack Donovan

Marshal Petain's Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn't so evident that he was going to be…

— Robert O. Paxton