We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals

Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family again. Ever.

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.