Russell Bufalino Quotes

You might be demonstrating a failure to show appreciation.

If they can whack a President, they can whack a president of a union. You know it and I know it.

He likes to talk, don't he?

Russell Bufalino : When I ask somebody to take care of something for me, I expect them to take care of it themselves. I don't need two roads coming back to me.

Russell had a piece of everything. He had this store in Pittston called Penn Drape & Curtains. And he ran everything out of there. Who knew what it all was? I mean, I'm sure the man had partners. They always have partners. Nobody keeps all the money. But everybody listened to Russ. That I can tell you. You wanted to bribe a judge, you asked Russell. You didn't know how much to bribe him, Russell was gonna tell you. You wanna promote one of your guys, Russ would tell you you could or you could not. You wanna make somebody disappear, you gotta get Russell's permission. You know, no two ways about it. And when you did something for Russ, you did it yourself. Like Russ used to say...