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

I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the…

— Chazz Palminteri

The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of the history…

— Douglass North

Unless you are absolutely positive that your wife has no connection to the Mafia, even three or four times removed, do yourself a favor…

— Joseph D. Pistone

You would go and play away in the south of Italy and there were Mafia people with their guns, it could be dangerous, I…

— Paolo di Canio

I hate school. I'm dropping out and becoming a drug dealer. I'll join the mafia too.

— Anonymous

Stupid I-tai, bring a knife to a gun fight.

— Anonymous

When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia.

— Frank Capra

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his…

— Noam Chomsky

As long as I could remember I always wanted to be a gangster.

— Henry Hill

“I was standing by the car when two police officers showed up in the alley, very interested in me and the BMW in an…

— Tomas Adam Nyapi

I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the…

— Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr

“They have secret weapons that break the heart of innocents, elevate stress levels, shoot down to make it look guilt. They can burn from…

— Maria Karvouni

Some newspapers in Britain have become closer to these kind of mafia families. They wield an incredible power. They choose our governments, they choose…

— Hugh Grant

If you think about the traditional mafia stories we grew up on, it is always about the death of criminal organisations - things like…

— James Watkins

A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call…

— Giuliana Rancic