"Now they'll fear you." :


"Oh, will they, Connie? Thanks for the tip. I didn't realize you had gotten so hip to the governance of the family's criminal empire. In fact, it seems to me that just a few years ago, you were a stupid drunk, jumping from one marriage to another, constantly asking to borrow money, who didn't know $h!t about mob politics and who, even now, hasn't put two and two together to surmise that I killed Fredo. And before that, you unwittingly married the Judas who would cause our brother Sonny to get gunned down--a Judas with a lovely personality, I might add, who used to beat the hell out of you. That was a real testament to your brains. And during all of this behavior on your part, I was only doing a little thing of minor importance that you might have heard about that I like to call STEPPING IN TO TAKE OVER THE FAMILY WHEN POP LOST HIS MARBLES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO AVENGING SONNY'S DEATH, KILLING THE HEADS OF THE OTHER FOUR FAMILIES, TAKING OVER VEGAS, CONSOLIDATING OUR POWER AS THE MOST POWERFUL SYNDICATE IN THE COUNTRY, AND OUTSMARTING THE BRILLIANT MANIPULATOR HYMEN ROTH TO DEFEND OUR FAMILY AGAINST YET ANOTHER ATTACK. But, by all means, please feel free to tell me what else I might do in the future to make them fear me."