BARZINI
Times have changed. It's not like the Old Days -- when we can do anything we want. A refusal is not the act of a friend. If Don Corleone had all the judges, and the politicians in New York, then he must share them, or let us others use them. He must let us draw the water from the well. Certainly he can -- present a bill for such services; after all -- we are not Communists.
ZALUCHI
I also don't believe in drugs. For years I paid my people extra so they wouldn't do that kind of business.
-- Somebody comes to them and says, "I have powders; if you put up three, four thousand dollar investment -- we can make fifty thousand distributing." So they can't resist. I want to control it as a business, to keep it respectable
(then, as he slams his hand on the table)
I don't want it near schools -- I don't want it sold to children! That's an infamia. In my city, we would keep the traffic in the dark people -- the colored. They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls...
VITO CORLEONE
I hoped that we would come here and reason together. And as a reasonable man I'm willing
to do whatever's necessary to -- find a peaceful solution to these problems...
BARZINI
Then we are agreed. The traffic in drugs will be permitted, but controlled -- and Don
Corleone will give up protection in the East -- and there will be the peace.
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