Mario Puzo Quotes
ِAn offer you can't refuse.
Puzo, Mario. The Godfather. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969.
Angered by the kidnapping and imprisonment of Americans and tired of paying tribute to the Barbary pirates, Jefferson sent John Paul Jones to Algiers to “negotiate” a deal.
Hartman had drafted the Inauguration Speech for Ford to use the next day, when President Nixon would resign in disgrace. When Ford reviewed the speech to make his personal changes he questioned the use of “our long national nightmare is over” and thought that he should not use it. Hartman reacted very strongly as the quotation demonstrates. After much discussion, Ford decided to leave it in, and it became the most quoted line of that speech and perhaps his entire career. Years later he expressed his gratitude to Hartman for not only writing the line, but taking such a firm position to persuade Ford to use it. See {641353} for Ford’s inaugural address quotation that became so famous.
Bhutto, after Pakistan’s defeat by India, initiated a massive nuclear bomb development program which was contrary to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation policy of the United States. Bhutto went ahead anyway and soon Pakistan had a nuclear capability, much to the distress of the other nuclear powers in the world.
During the Vietnam War the Joint Chiefs of Staff wished direct access to President Johnson. The Secretary of Defense advised the chiefs:
Mario Gianluigi Puzo was an American author, screenwriter, and journalist. He is known for his crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film trilogy directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and for Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 Superman film and its 1980 sequel. His final novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001.
