Mafia Quotes

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
Russell Baker

Bad, Sunday, Together

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

Good, Wrong, Chance

The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!
Jerry Seinfeld

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

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 working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.
Chazz Palminteri

Real, Working, Proud

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
Steve Allen

Government, Improve, Bank

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.
Stanley Crouch

Liars, Parents, Done

It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.
Tim Robbins

Wrong, Dangerous, Guys

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.
Davy Jones

Life, Nobody, Monkees

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.
Philip Zimbardo

School, Down, Thought

I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.
James Gandolfini

Men, Character, Lost

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 me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.
Giuliana Rancic

Family, Today, School

The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
Davy Jones

Away, Racing, Bug

You know, Castle's the kind of guy that when he meets somebody, that's a connection for him. He remains connected to the people that he meets. That's the kind of guy he is, be they criminals, gangster rappers, mafia guys, art thieves, whoever it is, he nurtures those relationships.
Nathan Fillion

In my real life, both my bosses are gay. On the 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' Andy Cohen is gay, everybody at Bravo is gay - we call them the gay mafia. Over at 'Glee' and 'The New Normal,' my boss Ryan Murphy is gay. On the show, my boss, played by Andrew Reynolds, is gay in real life. I'm surrounded by all my gay bosses.
NeNe Leakes

Life, Gay, Real

I'm a big fan of Tiesto, and Swedish House Mafia are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.
Joe Jonas

Work, Big, Awesome

The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.
Dominic Cooper

Education, Family, Good

I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia.
Brenda Lee

Time, Big, Favorite

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 mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.
David Duke

Problem, Call, Leaders

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.
James Gandolfini

Character, Away, Again

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 mafia.
David Remnick

Single, Corruption, Free

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
Barbara Amiel

Liberty, Same, Members

There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.
Nelson DeMille

Great, High, Families

The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?
Yulia Tymoshenko

Family, Money, Around

Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.
Chazz Palminteri

Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.
Martin Cruz Smith

Government, Times, Party

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