You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.

I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.

They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.

Vote early and vote often.