Don Corleone:  If you'd come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day.  At least I assume so.  I mean, there's really nothing you can say if the D.A. won't press charges, but I hear even the holding cells are no picnic.  Put a good spook into 'em, you know?  Anyway, I gotta go, these caterers.

 ***

Don Corleone:  Someday -- and that day will never come -- I will call upon you to do a service for me.  When that day arrives, I'll just have one of my people call you, and you can just send an invoice to the Genco A/P department.  Care of Felicia Alotta, she's a real peach.

***

Michael Corleone:  When Johnny was first starting out, he was signed to this contract with a big bandleader.  And as his career got better and better, he wanted to get out of it.  Now, Johnny is my father's godson.  My father went to see the bandleader with a contract for $10,000 to let Johnny go, but the bandleader said no.  So the next day, my father went to see the bandleader again, only this time with Luca Brasi.  Within an hour, the bandleader signed the release, for a certified check of $1000.

Kay Adams:  How did he do that?

Michael Corleone:  My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

Kay Adams:  What was it?

Michael Corleone:  Luca Brasi gave him a new contract for $25,000, in monthly pay-outs over two years with a final lump-sum against future recording royalties.  Plus points.

***

Emilio Barzini:  If Don Corleone has all the judges and the politicians in New York, the he must share them, or let others use them.  He must let us draw water from the well.  Certainly he can present a bill for such services; after all, we are not communists.

Victor Stracchi:  I'm a communist.

Phillip Tattaglia:  I'm really more of  a Social Democrat.

Don Corleone:  I voted for McGovern, I don't know.

 ***

Don Corleone:  I'm a superstitious man.  And if some unlucky accident should befall Michael -- if he is shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell, or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning -- then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room.  Of course, I don't know what I could do about.  Sue the weatherman?  Anyway, I'll be pissed.

***

Michael Corleone:  Is my credit good enough to buy you out?

Moe Greene:  Buy me out?

Michael Corleone:  The casino.  The hotel.  The hotel.  The Corleone Family wants to buy you out.

Moe Greene:  The Corleone Family wants to buy me out?  No.  I buy you out, you don't buy me out.

Michael Corleone:  Your casino loses money.  Maybe we can do better.

Moe Greene:  All right, all right.  Have June down at the front desk run your Experian.

 ***

Don Corleone:  I never wanted this for you.  I worked my whole life -- I don't apologize -- to take care of my family.  And I refused to be a fool, dancing on the string held by all those big shots.  I don't apologize; that's my life.  But I thought that when it was your time, that you would be the one to hold the string.  Senator Corleone -- Governor Corleone -- well, there wasn't enough time, Michael.  There wasn't enough time.  Maybe in 2008, I dunno, depending on how the midterms go.

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