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

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.

Any man can turn traitor.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

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