Quotes

[B.]

"Without the mafia, there wouldn't even be no case here!" -Carmine Persico, acting as his own lawyer

A lot of Persico's dialogue from that trial was good.

"You know I bought the house." - Fred DeChristopher
"You couldn't buy socks." - Persico

″Did you tell your children you were hurt fighting the war, when in fact you fell down a ladder?″ - Persico to DeChristopher on an alleged WWI injury

Ivan hit on a lot of the best. Scarfo has to be the king of quotes. Some other favorites:

"I'm like the turtle. I get there." - Scarfo

"Who the fuck is Shotsie?!" - John Veasey

"I lost my son. I lost my son when I made him a skipper." - Vincent Asaro

"This needs absolute attackness. OK?" - Charlie Stango

[B.]

Special mention:

"This is awful." - Joe Sferra, weeping after his double demotion from both capodecina and union leader

"Joe, I love you. But I love the Cosa Nostra more." - Sam DeCavalcante to Sferra

[Ivan]

"Who the fuck is Shotsie?!" - John Veasey

"I'm in the mafia. If you are too, tell me."

[thekiduknow]

"From right you wind up wrong", Albert Anastasia to Joe Valachi

[Wiseguy]

"You have the balls to be underboss but not the brains."

(Robert DiBernardo to Angelo Ruggiero)

[Pogo The Clown]

"You have the balls to be underboss but not the brains."

(Robert DiBernardo to Angelo Ruggiero)

Ouch. No wonder Ruggiero was pushing for DB to be killed after he burned him like that.


Pogo

[B.]

Did that quote come from a recording, or was it just something Gravano or someone else mentioned?

[Wiseguy]

Did that quote come from a recording, or was it just something Gravano or someone else mentioned?

I don't recall. Read it somewhere and remembered it because it was pretty funny.

[Ivan]

Another good quote from the Commission Trial:

"I don't need any stories. Just give me my hundred years and get me the fuck outta here!" ~Tom Mix Santoro, when the judge started lecturing him about his life of crime at sentencing

[Ivan]

One more before I forget:

"It takes a while to get used to. But you eat anything that doesn't get up from the plate and walk away." ~Nicky Scarfo, regarding the food in prison

[Ivan]

"Nobody fucks with me." ~Vincent Gigante, temporarily dropping his crazy act for a few seconds when a guard teased him about people messing with him in jail

"We don't break our capos. We kill them." ~Gigante again

[bert]

"Nobody fucks with me." ~Vincent Gigante, temporarily dropping his crazy act for a few seconds when a guard teased him about people messing with him in jail

"We don't break our capos. We kill them." ~Gigante again

There used to be a video online if Gigante after his arrest for shooing Costello. It shows him being led to a police van. A reporter yells out "Are you scared" and he turns and yells "Are you kidding!" like he's mad.

[Pogo The Clown]

"I know when to keep my fucking mouth shut." - John Gotti on the Ravenite wiretap


Pogo

[motorfab]

"I know when to keep my fucking mouth shut." - John Gotti on the Ravenite wiretap


Pogo

He really said that ? Wow this one is gold

[Manhattan_]

Chin , after John Gotti told him that John Jr. had been made replied “ I”m sorry to hear that .