Quotes About Racketeering

#1. The Americans always go one better on any kind of beastliness, whether it is ice-cream soda, racketeering or theosophy.

George Orwell

#2. Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.

Al Capone

#3. I don't believe newspaper reporters can substitute for a district attorney, but a newspaper has a very valid investigative role. Newspaper reports on corruption in government, racketeering and organized crime conditions can be very helpful to your communities and the whole country.

Robert Kennedy

#4. Criminality is now legal. I guess criminal racketeering these days would be like burning little children at the stake or something. That's about what it takes to get anyone to care.

Alex Jones

#5. I was never ready to give up, but I did get words of confidence to move forward from a few musicians that had climbed up the totem pole of rock. They were encouraging words that struck a nerve with me and made me stronger.

Lita Ford

#6. Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak.

Henry Adams

#7. EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.

Amit Ray

#9. - I am the chief steward of my fate, I am the fireman of my soul.

Malcolm Lowry

#10. The techie was still going. Now I want to know what else the dude did while he was messing around in there, right? So I do a scan for any other stuff that was deleted around the same time. And guess what pops up? The entire Outlook PST file. Nuked. At four eleven in the A.M.

Tana French

#11. If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney.

Leo Burnett

#12. I was in '78 recently," he announced. "I brought you this."
He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn't recognize the title.
"Didn't they split in '70?"
"Not always. How are things?

Jasper Fforde

#13. And the single action scam was dispensing cash like water gushing down Niagara Falls.

Joe Bruno

#14. I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

Jamie Lynn Spears