Alcohol Quote by Sam Branson

The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government…

— Kurt Schmoke

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we…

— Drew Carey

“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

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

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own…

— Henry George

The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is…

— Ellen Willis

The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails…

— Billy Sunday

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

Any time that you have a sporting event with a Vegas line to it, there's always going to be somebody involved in organized crime…

— Tim Donaghy

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

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

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