You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

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

It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.

Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

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