Browsing Topic Best Extortion Quotes

For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.

These men of Law and their confederates … the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up the free-born people of this Nation.

Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion.

Heck, what’s a little extortion among friends?

Identity theft, financial laundering, as well as ransom and ransomware – I mean, think of it – all involving extortion of a hacked institution are becoming increasingly common.

The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop’s secretary’s nephew’s mistress’ illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

When more of the people’s sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.

Well the thing is that under the [Ronald] Reagan administration, excesses have occurred in terms of over regulating certain types of behavior, and excesses have occurred in the opposite direction, in de-regulating other types of behavior. As a matter of fact, if they continue to regulate the airlines, we might have safer skies, and if they slack off on the radio, we might have better radio. If they just use it as a threat, eventually there’s going to be another test case like the one that the 7 dirty words ruling came out of, and basically, its extortion.

Today is February 14th – St. Valentine’s day. Women call it Love day, while men name it as Extortion day.

He [Donald Trump] is like – he’s a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are extremely dangerous.

Today is Valentine’s Day – or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!

I don’t think it’s bribery; I think it’s extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that’s giving the money does it voluntarily. What it is in Washington is extortion because they all ask for the money.

For many years, they said the drug lords in Colombia were unbeatable, but all the same, we’ve eliminated all the big capos (as the drug lords are called in Colombia). The homicide rate is as low as it was 40 years ago and the kidnapping rate has dropped to the level of 1964. Now we’ll be able to bring down the street criminals specializing in extortion and robbery.

Marshal Petain’s Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn’t so evident that he was going to be able to protect them from German extortions, and it didn’t look so much as though they had won the war, either. And so by ’43, a lot of people are shifting sides.

Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.