Mafia – Quotes

The Mafia has higher

The Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierachy because if their members were raping children, they’d off them. Ernie Chambers

The only other scenario that could explain everything, up to and including your own bizarre apperance, is a convoluted conspiracy theory involving the Russian Mafia and a crack team of plastic surgeons. Eoin Colfer

I spent much of

I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape. Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.

They\’s making it worse,

They’s making it worse, the labor movement got the mafia curse. Frank Zappa

It seems that the

It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds all nations together – the incompetence of all of their governments…The unions are the mafia, which is the CIA, which is the Catholic Church, which is the government, which is what’s the difference? … Read more

When you get to

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

The evolution of government

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 of freedom. It is a part that tends to be obscured or ignored because of the myopic vision of many economists, who persist in modeling government as nothing more than a … Read more

Desperation is like stealing

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention. Douglas Horton

I was researching some

I was researching some of the modern-day figures that The Sopranos were moulded on. So many iconic Sopranos moments. James Gandolfini and Edie Falco had an incredible scene together in the kitchen of that house that looked like it was about to explode. That was an iconic series that changed the way we did television. … Read more

When I wrote War

When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn’t expect much to come of it-but quite a bit came and it captured me. I continued the books to feed the obvious hunger that was there for heroic fiction. Don Pendleton