Agreed. If Michael had died, all Vito could have negotiated for was his life and perhaps that of his family and maybe Tom. He would have had to give up everything including Tesssio and clemenza and he would have been out of the game entirely.
"Io sono stanco, sono imbigliato, and I wan't everyone here to know, there ain't gonna be no trouble from me..Don Corleone..Cicc' a port!"
"I stood in the courtroom like a fool."
"I am Constanza: Lord of the idiots."
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