Any time that you have a sporting event with a Vegas line…

It's no crime, to keep trying.

— Melchor Lim

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

— Ron Dellums

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

— James Chiles

“When the payoff for organizing violence at a large scale tumbles, the payoff from violence at a smaller scale is likely to jump. Violence…

— James Dale Davidson

Drugs are available to those who want them. And where are those profits going? Into organized crime, [to criminals] who spend their profits on…

— Sam Branson

“Later that same year John F. Kennedy was elected president by a thin margin. The first thing he did was appoint his brother attorney…

— Charles Brandt

Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and…

— Ban Ki-moon

Whether my acting was obscene, or whether it was distasteful, well, Judge Rehnquist, who just recently passed away couldn't define pornography. His comment on…

— Harry Reems

Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that, like my…

— Zachary Lazar

“First-order consequences of Prohibition: alcohol is made illegal, legitimate producers of alcohol go out of business, decrease in drinking.   Second-order consequences of Prohibition:…

— Sebastian Marshall

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

— Warren Christopher

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

We must regard Sarah Palin as the Carmella Soprano of the GOP -- an enabling wife of organized crime, who sees, hears and speaks…

— Cintra Wilson

[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not…

— Sam Branson

A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is…

— Le Ly Hayslip