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I would put my hand in the fire and say there is now no mafia in city hall. But I can't say the same about corruption. Even as we speak, someone is probably paying someone a bribe somewhere in the Rome city council, that is what makes one so bitter. – Alfonso Sabella	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Rome is unfortunately fundamentally corrupt, this is not your traditional mafia involved in drug dealing or extortion rackets. This is something original. – Alfonso Sabella	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is not your traditional mafia involved in drug dealing or extortion rackets. This is something original. – Alfonso Sabella	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You talk about gaming and people think about fraud, money laundering, mafia and addiction. – Luiz Felipe Maia	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Zawahiri is clearly very angry and frustrated that the Islamic State has been attacking him, attacking his soldiers on the ground, attacking him personally. you can compare it to two drug gangs, or two mafia mobs. One is encroaching on the other's territory. – Georgetown University Nicholas Palarino	Found on CNN 8 years ago
That's the way they play the game. We are dealing with the Mafia here, the old SourceAmerica Mafia. – Jean Robinson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I can say nothing prepared me for the caustic nature of the Lansing mafia, the entirety of the state House and state government is controlled and manipulated for the political advantage and to the benefit of the establishment powers. – Republican Michigan Rep. Todd Courser	Found on CNN 8 years ago
In all these years I've always tried to emphasize and to promote the need to combat the Mafia, because it is a cancer which is oppressive and which stifles everybody's freedom and reduces the possibility for the areas in which it's present to prosper and to develop. – Italian President Sergio Mattarella	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We say 'no' to corruption that is so widespread that it seems to be an attitude, normal behavior, but not in words, rather in deeds. We say 'no' to Mafia collusion, fraud, bribes, and the like. – Pope Francis	Found on CNN 8 years ago
You're in the hands of the mafia. – Hamed Kouyate	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Once you're there, you're trapped, you're in the hands of the mafia. – Hamed Kouyate	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We have suggested to the government that it should increase the royalty to at least 2,000 rupees( $ 20) per cubic foot, to discourage locals from working with the timber mafia. – Sher Khan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
He was assassinated by the Mafia because he was opposing their interests and their influence. – President Mattarella	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We have the Texas Mexican Mafia, and anyone selling drugs they collect a dime 10 percent, and the motive in this case was she wasn't paying. – Joel Perez	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Because he is a high-profile drop-out targeted by the Mexican Mafia, Mr. Enriquez's parole poses a serious security risk to him, his family, his parole agents, and the community in which he is placed. – Jerry Brown	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We were lucky to find a place inland in 1997 as now the land mafia has moved here and it is impossible to find land unless you are willing to pay large amounts of money, we think we are safe here from the seawater for now. – Meero Dablo	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The illegal war carried out against the nation of Iraq serves as a perfect example of how the U.S. government acts much like a Mafia enterprise ... criminally plundering entire nations of their resources, strategic reserves and economies. – Arturo Pierre Martinez	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Islam is the only religion that acts like the mafia that will f * ing kill you if you say the wrong thing. – Bill Maher**	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I voted so that Moldova finally will be able to get rid of all that has been going on for the past five years - all this corruption, this mafia which has seized the people and the country. – Vladimir Voronin	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's good to choose (Soetjipto) as Pertamina CEO because he hasn't been contaminated by the oil and gas mafia. – Fahmi Radhy	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies. – Woody Allen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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 Wayne Baker	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's Okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite. – Dennis McKinsey	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I would put my hand in the fire and say there is now no mafia in city hall. But I can't say the same about corruption. Even as we speak, someone is probably paying someone a bribe somewhere in the Rome city council, that is what makes one so bitter.

– Alfonso Sabella

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Rome is unfortunately fundamentally corrupt, this is not your traditional mafia involved in drug dealing or extortion rackets. This is something original.

– Alfonso Sabella

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is not your traditional mafia involved in drug dealing or extortion rackets. This is something original.

– Alfonso Sabella

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You talk about gaming and people think about fraud, money laundering, mafia and addiction.

– Luiz Felipe Maia

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Zawahiri is clearly very angry and frustrated that the Islamic State has been attacking him, attacking his soldiers on the ground, attacking him personally. you can compare it to two drug gangs, or two mafia mobs. One is encroaching on the other's territory.

– Georgetown University Nicholas Palarino

Found on CNN
8 years ago

That's the way they play the game. We are dealing with the Mafia here, the old SourceAmerica Mafia.

– Jean Robinson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I can say nothing prepared me for the caustic nature of the Lansing mafia, the entirety of the state House and state government is controlled and manipulated for the political advantage and to the benefit of the establishment powers.

– Republican Michigan Rep. Todd Courser

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In all these years I've always tried to emphasize and to promote the need to combat the Mafia, because it is a cancer which is oppressive and which stifles everybody's freedom and reduces the possibility for the areas in which it's present to prosper and to develop.

– Italian President Sergio Mattarella

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We say 'no' to corruption that is so widespread that it seems to be an attitude, normal behavior, but not in words, rather in deeds. We say 'no' to Mafia collusion, fraud, bribes, and the like.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You're in the hands of the mafia.

– Hamed Kouyate

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Once you're there, you're trapped, you're in the hands of the mafia.

– Hamed Kouyate

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

– Sher Khan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

He was assassinated by the Mafia because he was opposing their interests and their influence.

– President Mattarella

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We have the Texas Mexican Mafia, and anyone selling drugs they collect a dime 10 percent, and the motive in this case was she wasn't paying.

– Joel Perez

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Because he is a high-profile drop-out targeted by the Mexican Mafia, Mr. Enriquez's parole poses a serious security risk to him, his family, his parole agents, and the community in which he is placed.

– Jerry Brown

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We were lucky to find a place inland in 1997 as now the land mafia has moved here and it is impossible to find land unless you are willing to pay large amounts of money, we think we are safe here from the seawater for now.

– Meero Dablo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The illegal war carried out against the nation of Iraq serves as a perfect example of how the U.S. government acts much like a Mafia enterprise ... criminally plundering entire nations of their resources, strategic reserves and economies.

– Arturo Pierre Martinez

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Islam is the only religion that acts like the mafia that will f *** ing kill you if you say the wrong thing.

– Bill Maher

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I voted so that Moldova finally will be able to get rid of all that has been going on for the past five years - all this corruption, this mafia which has seized the people and the country.

– Vladimir Voronin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's good to choose (Soetjipto) as Pertamina CEO because he hasn't been contaminated by the oil and gas mafia.

– Fahmi Radhy

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

– Woody Allen

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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 Wayne Baker

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's Okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite.

– Dennis McKinsey

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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