Nehemiah Persoff credited as playing...
Little Bonaparte
- Mulligan: What happened here?
- Little Bonaparte: [referring to Spats and his thugs] There was something in that cake that didn't agree with them.
- Mulligan: My compliments to the chef. Nobody leaves this room until I get the recipe.
- Little Bonaparte: You wanna make a federal case of it?
- Mulligan: [grabs the speaker of Little Bonaparte's hearing aid] Yeah!
- Little Bonaparte: [thick Italian accent] Thank you, fellow opera-lovers. It's been ten years since I elected myself president of dis organization... an' if I say so myself, you made duh right choice. Let's look at duh record: In duh lass fissel year we made a hundred an' twelve million dollars before taxes... only we didn't pay no taxes!
- Little Bonaparte: I'm lookin' around for somebody to fill my shoes. I've been considerin' several candidates. For instance, there's a certain party from Chicago, South Side Chapter.
- [angrily]
- Little Bonaparte: Now, some people say he's gotten a little too big for his spats!
- [calmly]
- Little Bonaparte: But l say he's a man who'll go far.
- [angrily]
- Little Bonaparte: Some people say he's gone too far!
- [calmly]
- Little Bonaparte: But l say, you can't keep a good man down. Of course, he's still got a lot to learn. The big noise he made on St Valentine's Day, that wasn't very good for public relations. And lettin' them two witnesses get away. That sure was careless.
- Spats Colombo: Don't worry about those two. They're as good as dead. l almost caught up with them today.
- Little Bonaparte: You mean you let 'em get away twice? Some people would say that's real sloppy. But l say: to err is human, to forgive divine. And just to show you what l think of you, Spats, the boys told me you was gonna have a birthday. So we baked you a little cake.