If you don’t think I’m good as my word, you don’t know me at all.[to Margaret]
If we only elected good men, we’d never have leaders.[to Margaret]
If there really is a God, would he have given me this mug?[Margaret Schroeder: You lost your faith.]
If America’s not about starting over, where’s the hope for any of us?[to Wendell]
I’m going to make him the richest corpse in New York.[Chalky White: When all is said and done, what you fixing to do about Mr. Rothstein?]
I’m curious who shot me. Listing who’d want me dead would take too long.[Clifford Lathrop: You’re not curious who’d want you dead?]
I’m a politician. There are some things you can’t buy in a cathouse.[to Johnny Torrio]
I prefer to think of myself as an artichoke.[Esther Randolph: You’re like an onion, Mr. Thompson. The more layers we peel…]
I keep my promises, James. And I’ll make you one now: I will ruin you. All of you.
I don’t have friends. I have partners.
I do smoke.[William ‘Willie’ Thompson]I know. I went to college for a year. It’s where I picked up all my bad habits.[Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson]
How come you got to be the wise one?[Elias ‘Eli’ Thompson]Because you needed me to be.[Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson]
