Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

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.

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

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

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