Mafia Quote by Garry Kasparov Download Open image “Russia is a mafia state today, and Putin is its top godfather.” — Garry Kasparov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mafia Putin Russia States Today
Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
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… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Putin set out to build a mafia state. He didn't set out to build a totalitarian regime. But he was building his mafia state… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I'm tired of Italian gangsters. Not that I don't watch 'The Godfather' every morning when I get up and 'Goodfellas' when I go to… — Richard Belzer Copy Share Image
There are allegations actually that he's [Vladimir Putin] associated with real gangsters in the past and that he runs his top circle sort of… — Corey Flintoff Copy Share Image
Now everybody is mafia. You got the Russian mafia, the Mexican mafia. Everybody is mafia these days. — Joe Arpaio Copy Share Image
There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin is a Russian czar. He's kind of a mix of Peter the Great and Stalin. He's got both in his veins. And… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
Russia, despite its heavy flirtation with capitalism and some quite unsavory oligarchs, is still building its foreign policy on the Soviet ideals of internationalism,… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Putin has mobilized and gathered the desires of millions upon millions of people who have been lied to, cheated, who lost out in the… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Karabakh conflict has a strong influence on the political climate both in Azerbaijan and Armenia. It is obvious, too, that the Azerbaijani leadership can… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I would say, you have a unique chance of learning more about the game of chess with your computer than Bobby Fischer, or even… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I'm not paranoid, but I am cautious. I don't drink tea with strangers, I don't fly Aeroflot and I avoid certain countries with close… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Barack Obama took over after Vladimir Putin's first aggression, in Georgia. In 2009, he did the reset policy because they had these stupid ideas… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image