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

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.

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.