Elena Satine Quotes

I have a job I'm pretty good at. I am in charge of things. I am on committees. People respect me and take my counsel. I want to be strong and professional, but I resent how hard I have to work to be taken seriously, to receive a fraction of the consideration I might otherwise receive.

I want to start the trans mafia one day.

My wife usually gives me a project... I like going to work because I can be the boss for once.

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

I think it's hard, when you're someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

I'm not particularly good at running things when once they get to a certain level. Once it gets routine, get me out of the way.

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella.'

I've always found when I was captain when other people were doing the talking for me, I didn't need to say as much, and when I did say one or two things, people tended to listen all the more.

I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

I feel like I've done a pretty good job of scaling because I got some great mentors along the way that helped me realize I just have to build a phenomenal team around me that makes my job a lot easier.

He who demands does not command.

Most major criminals operating in this country do so because of relationships they have with politicians who allow them to operate.

Who knows what is really going on within a criminal enterprise? Criminals

People love stories about the mafia: 'The Godfather,' 'American Gangster.'

It doesn't come naturally to me, being the boss and telling people what I want. I find it very taxing and tiring. I love getting to be way down the line in the decision-making chain.

I do not decide who plays.

It's a lot easier to let someone else be Caesar.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion