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

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

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

I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

Once in the racket you're always in it.

Now I know why tigers eat their young.