Mario Puzo Quotes
Any man can turn traitor.
Puzo, Mario. The Godfather. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969.
Treason has often been committed by those must trusted in a nation.
He held up tools made by the Stanley Tool Company which had announced that they were relocating to Bermuda to avoid paying American taxes. The company changed its mind after this sort of publicity.
The event that triggered the call was President Lyndon Johnson introducing the Voting Right Act. Russell had been a mentor to the young Johnson, a fellow Southerner who had voted against and blocked all civil rights legislation when he was in the House and Senate. However when he became President, his representation changed and he reverted to his pre-political views. {637651}
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.
