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"You heard of the double cross? In this business you gotta watch for the triple cross.You gotta aways be alert.There's so much jealousy. Guys always trying to set you up, put you in traps. Trying to get ya killed.There was so much viciousness in this thing."
Nick Carmamandi
"You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone."
Al Capone
"Goodfellas don't sue goodfellas, Goodfellas kill goodfellas."
Salvatore Profaci
"Let him go. He cheated me fair & square."
Joseph "Joe Batters" Accardo
"I never killed a guy who didn't deserve it."
Mickey Cohen
"We only kill each other."
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
"In this thing of ours your love for your mother and father is one thing; your love for The Family' is a different kind of love ."
Raymond L.S. Patriarca
“When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality.”
Al Capone
"We could go anywhere in the city and get identificaion, get plates, talk to jurors after hours at night in the court, anything. We had that kind of access in the city of Boston."
Frances "Cadillac Frank" Salemme
“These two suckers took it on the chin for us.That shows you how much justice there really is.” (Morelli's reference was to Sacco and Vanzetti, two anarchists who were tried, convicted and executed for the armed robbery and murder of two people in South Braintree Mass. Morelli claimed it was his "crew" who did the job.)
Frank "Butsey" Morelli
"If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough."
Lucky Luciano
"Always overpay your taxes. That way you'll get a refund."
Meyer Lansky
"All I wanted was to be what I became."
John Gotti
" Vote early and vote often. "
Al Capone
"The income tax law is a lot of bunk. The government can't
collect legal taxes from illegal money."
Al Capone
"Gentlemen,since you have been unable to find any evidence for the numerous crimes I did commit, you are reduced to condemning me for one I have not."
(After being arrested and acquitted approximately 69 times he is framed for a murder by an unfriendly government.)
Vito Cascio Ferro
(Even though it's from a movie you've got to love it! My all time favorite)
Leave the gun, take the cannoli.
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Clemenza
"Being the godfather of a family or a gang was pretty important, but when you're made the godfather of a Sicilican kid, that's when you really hit the big time. It carries a lotta responsibility, like you gotta make sure the kid is going in the right direction. In the States, all the guys in my outfit was always knocking out kids and they all wantin'me to be the Godfather. But I never did. But when Calcedonia (his cousin) came all the way up to Rome and because he was also part of the good things that happened to me, I agreed to go to Palermo and sign the baptismal certificate and make it all official. It would be the first and only time I would really be a Godfather."
Lucky Luciano on being a godfather in the true sense of the word:
"They come from opposite sides of Sicily, and both of 'em brought the whole idea of vendetta with 'em to the States. I never seen nothing like it. It was like in the hills of Kentucky when two families are fightin'and knockin' each other off for some fucked-up reason that maybe goes back a hundred years and nobody ever remembers why no more."
"All of us younger guys hated the old mustaches and what they was doin'. We was tryin'to build a business that would last, to move with the times, and they was still livin' a hundred years ago. We knew the old guys and their ideas hadda go, we was just markin' time. The way we looked at it was that getting rid of a Masseria or a Maranzano was no different from some bank tearin' down an old building so they could put up a new one. For us, rubbin'out a Mustache was just like makin' way for a new building, like we was in the construction business."
On the New York bosses Giuseppe Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano, who were the top figures in the underworld as he was working his way upward (Luciano would be very involved in the murders of both).
From the book The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano
Martin Gosch and Richard Hammer
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