Al Capone

"And by the way, I've been indicted more times than Alphonse Capone. He's the most vicious of all gangsters. If he took you to dinner and if you didn't look proper, if you laughed a little bit, he might think you're laughing at him, it's dangerous to laugh – he'd kill you immediately. He was indicted one time. I was indicted four times."

"I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War."

"You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."

"I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man."

"Do I do business with Canadian racketeers? I don't even know what street Canada is on."

"Don't get the idea that I'm one of these goddamn radicals. Don't get the idea that I'm knocking the American system."

"This is virgin territory out here for whorehouses."

"This American system of ours ... call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it."

"Die Öffentlichkeit hat ihre Vorstellung von meinem Gatten. Ich habe eine andere. Ich werde sein Andenken in Ehren halten und ihn immer lieben."

"Ich bestreite entschieden jede Verantwortung."