Italians: "Cosa Nostra is the most elaborate and sophisticated organized crime syndicate in world history."

Also Italians: "It's not fair that Italian mobsters get these long prison sentences!"

"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea