Roth do Michaela (ze scenariusza, więc mogą być drobne różnice):

There was this kid that I grew up
with; he was a couple years younger
than me, and sort of looked up to
me, you know. We did our first
work together, worked our way out
of the street. Things were good
and we made the most of it. During
prohibition, we ran molasses up to
Canada and made a fortune; your
father too. I guess as much as
anyone, I loved him and trusted him.
Later on he had an idea to make a
city out of a desert stop-over for
G.I.'s on the way to the West Coast.
That kid's name was Moe Greene, and
the city he invented was Las Vegas.
This was a great man; a man with
vision and guts; and there isn't
even a plaque or a signpost or a
statue of him in that town. Someone
put a bullet through his eye; no
one knows who gave the order. When
I heard about it I wasn't angry. I
knew Moe; I knew he was headstrong,
and talking loud, and saying stupid
things. So when he turned up dead,
I let it go, and said to myself:
this is the business we've chosen.
I never asked, who gave the go
ahead because it had nothing to do
with business.
There's three million dollars on
that table. I'm going to lie down,
maybe take a nap. When I wake up,
if it's still there, I'll know I
have a partner. If it's gone, then
I'll know I don't.

Michael przed Komisją:


SENATOR KANE
Now, Mr.
Corleone, you have been advised as
to your legal rights. We have had
testimony from a preceding witness
who states you are head of the most
powerful Mafia family in this
country. Are you?

MICHAEL
No.

SENATOR KANE
This witness has testified that you
are personally responsible for the
murder of a New York Police Captain
in the year 1947 and with him a man
named Virgil Sollozzo. Do you deny
this?

MICHAEL
I deny his every charge.

SENATOR KANE
Is it true that in the year 1950
you devised the murder of the heads
of the Five Families in New York,
to assume and consolidate your
nefarious power?

MICHAEL
That is a complete falsehood.

SENATOR KANE
Is it true that you own a
controlling interest in three of
the major hotels in Las Vegas?

MICHAEL
That is not true. I own some stock
in some of the hotels, but only
very small amounts. I also own
some American Telephone and IBM
stock.


SENATOR KANE
Mr. Corleone, do you have any hotel
interests in the state of Arizona?
Or any gambling interests in that
state?

MICHAEL
I do not.

SENATOR KANE
Do you have interests or control
over gambling and narcotics in the
state of New York.

MICHAEL
I do not.


(...)


MICHAEL
(reading)
In the hopes of clearing my family
name, in the sincere desire to give
my children their fair share of the
American way of life without a
blemish on their name and background
I have appeared before this
committee and given it all the
cooperation in my power. I consider
my being called before this
committee an act of prejudice to
all Americans of Italian extraction.
I consider it a great dishonor to
me personally to have to deny that
I am a criminal. I wish to have
the following noted for the record.
That I served my country faithfully
and honorably in World War II and
was awarded the Distinguished
Service Cross for actions in
defense of my country. That I have
never been arrested or indicted for
any crime whatsoever... that no
proof linking me to any criminal
conspiracy, whether it is called
Mafia or Cosa Nostra or whatever
other name you wish to give, has
ever been made public. Only one
man has made charges against me,
and that man is known to be a
murderer, arsonist and rapist. And
yet this committee had used this
person to besmirch my name. My
personal protest can only be made
to the people of this country. I
can only thank God that in this
country we have a legal system and
courts of law to protect innocent
people from wild accusation. I
thank God for our democratic due
process of Law that shields me from
the false charges made by this
committee's witness. I have not
taken refuge behind the Fifth
Amendment, though counsel advised
me to do so. I challenge this
committee to produce any witness or
evidence against me, and if they do
not, I hope they will have the
decency to clear my name with the
same publicity with which they have
now besmirched it.

Frankie oczywiście sobie te żyły otworzył na koniec:


HAGEN
Frankie, you were always interested
in politics, in history. I remember
you talking about Hitler back in
'43. We were young then.

PENTANGELI
Yeah, I still read a lot. They
bring me stuff.

HAGEN
You were around the old timers who
dreamed up how the Families should
be organized, how they based it on
the old Roman Legions, and called
them 'Regimes'... with the 'Capos'
and 'Soldiers,' and it worked.

PENTANGELI
Yeah, it worked. Those were great
old days. We was like the Roman
Empire. The Corleone family was
like the Roman Empire.

HAGEN
(sadly)
Yeah, it was once.

They both puff on their cigars. Pentangeli lets himself be
carried away by thoughts of old days of glory; Hagen thinks
of other days too.

HAGEN
(very gently)
The Roman Empire... when a plot
against the Emperor failed, the
plotters were always given a chance
to let their families keep their
fortunes.

PENTANGELI
Yeah, but only the rich guys. The
little guys got knocked off. If
they got arrested and executed, all
their estate went to the Emperor.
If they just went home and killed
themselves, up front, nothing
happened.

HAGEN
Yeah, that was a good break. A
nice deal.

Pentangeli looks at Hagen; he understands.

PENTANGELI
They went home and sat in a hot
bath and opened their veins, and
bled to death. Sometimes they gave
a little party before they did it.

Hagen throws away his cigar. Pentangeli puffs on his.

HAGEN
Don't worry about anything, Frankie
Five-Angels.

PENTANGELI
Thanks, Tom. Thanks.

A ja będę bardziej sentymentalny :
Trzymaj przyjaciół blisko , a wrogów jeszcze bliżej

Jezeli cokolwiek w zyciu jest pewne, i jezeli historia nas czegos uczy, to tego, ze kazdego mozna zabic.