Stickup Quotes

Thug: This is a stickup! Now come on. Your money or your life.
[long pause]. (Jack Benny)

sovereignty is irrevocable, and when the United States, through its cannons, forced the Spanish plenipotentiaries to sign the so-called cession of Puerto Rico, it was committing just a typical North American stickup.

Pedro Albizu Campos