I’m a businessman. I’ve made my money supplying a popular demand. If I break the law, my customers are as guilty as I am. — Al Capone

I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want. — Al Capone

Now I know why tigers eat their young. — Al Capone

Life is amazing, isn’t it? You can’t ever tell what will happen. Nobody knows until they go ahead and play the game. — Gennifer Choldenko

Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don’t make sense to anyone else. — Gennifer Choldenko

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand. — Al Capone

We been on the road for 18 hours… I need a bath, some chow… and then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies,eh? — Al Capone

Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it. — Al Capone

Once in the racket you’re always in it. — Al Capone

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. — Al Capone

It’s a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked. — Al Capone

You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. — Al Capone

Vote early and vote often. — Al Capone

Nobody was ever killed except outlaws, and the community is better off without them. — Al Capone

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

I’m a kind person, I’m kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you’ll remember me for. — Al Capone

I have built my organization upon fear. — Al Capone

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

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you’re me. I came here because my mother said I had to. — Gennifer Choldenko

My face turns red just seeing her. She’s a looker. If Pete were here, he’d whistle. — Gennifer Choldenko

Why, the very guys that make my trade good are the ones that yell the loudest about me. Some of the leading judges use the stuff. — Al Capone

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

I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat, the kind you can’t buy. You just have to have them transferred someplace where they can’t do you any harm. — Al Capone

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they’re going to stay that way. — Al Capone

Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me. — Al Capone

They talk about me not being legitimate. Nobody’s on the legit, you know that and so do they. Nobody’s really–on the legit when it comes down to cases. — Al Capone

They can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money. — Al Capone

That crazy Hitler guy in Germany who doesn’t want Jewish people to compete in the Olympics. — Gennifer Choldenko

Some of the biggest Drys in the country buy from me and have for years, so let’s stop kidding. — Al Capone

All I ever did was sell beer and whiskey to our best people. — Al Capone

Once you’re in the racket, you’re always in it. The parasites will trail you, begging for money and favors, and you can never get away from them no matter where you go. — Al Capone

Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies. — Al Capone

I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten. — Al Capone

In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody. — Al Capone

Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business. — Al Capone

All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular. — Al Capone

Don’t you get the idea I’m one of those goddam radicals. Don’t get the idea I’m knocking the American system. — Al Capone

They’ve hung everything on me except the Chicago fire. — Al Capone

Don’t let anybody kid you into thinking I can be run out of town. I haven’t run yet and I’m not going to. — Al Capone

It seems like I’m responsible for every crime that takes place in this country. — Al Capone

People are responsible for themselves. All you can do is try to inspire each person to be his best self. — Gennifer Choldenko

What do you want to do, get yourself killed before you are thirty? You’d better get some sense while a few of us are left alive. — Al Capone