- Meyer Lansky: When you lose your money, you lose nothing. When you lose your health, you lose something. When you lose your character, you lose everything.
- Meyer Lansky: There are people in this world who will try to make you believe that they are better than you, that they can win at your expense.
- Meyer Lansky: Rage is a tool we use to look those people in the eye and prove them wrong.
- Rabbi: And God said to Abraham, 'Abraham, take your son, your only son whom you love, Isaac, and sacrifice him on one of the mountains that I will tell you'. And Abraham went forth with Isaac to do just that. But perhaps what God really wanted, was for Abraham to say... 'No'.
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- Interviewer: Mr. Lansky, why are the American authorities after you?
- Meyer Lansky: Well, apparently some newspaper man wrote that I had $300 million.
- Interviewer: Is it true?
- Meyer Lansky: [chuckles] I wish I had a million dollars. They accuse me of making a president. Now, I don't know Mr. Nixon any more than what I've seen in the newspapers. They claim I have 50% of Lebanon casinos. 50% of Monte Carlo. Now how ridiculous can we really get?
- Interviewer: Mr. Lansky, is there such a thing as organized crime?
- Meyer Lansky: [long pause] I have no knowledge on the subject.
- Meyer Lansky: They rigged the game, the outsider! He was the one controlling the game.
- Meyer Lansky: And isn't that what we all want, David?
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