- Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano Jr.: [Anthony Jr. tries to convince his father that Christopher Columbus was a slave trader] It's in my history book.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: So, you finally read a book, and it's bullshit.
- Silvio Dante: [Referring to killing protest leader, Professor Del Redclay] Maybe we should just whack this prick
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Who the fuck are you kidding? All you thought about was Blackjack
- Silvio Dante: What?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: You think this stay in the country was free don't you? Well, it wasn't. Fuckin Chief Smith wants Frankie Valli to come up there and play for a week, that's what this whole junket was about
- Silvio Dante: Frankie?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Yeah that's right. That's why he "butt holed" me God damn it. His bad over Frankie's manager so the chief wants me to call him directly as payback for him reaching out to Redclay, but you're making the call
- Silvio Dante: I haven't seen Frankie for years
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [Angrily] tough shit, you're making the fuckin call. You and this fuckin parade already
- Silvio Dante: I don't know what you're so hot about. They're discriminating all Italians as a group when they disallowed Columbus
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Oh, will you fuckin stop? "Group". What the fuck happened to Gary Cooper? That's what I'd like to know
- Silvio Dante: He died because he fought all those Sioux in all those westerns
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Oh fuck that. Gary Cooper: there was an American. The strong, silent type. He did what he had to do. He faced down the Miller gang when none of those other assholes in town would lift a finger to help him. Did he complain? Did he say "oh, I come from this poor Texas, Irish, illiterate background or whatever the fuck so leave me the fuck out of it because my people got fucked over."
- Silvio Dante: T, not for nothing, but you're getting confused here. The guy was in the movies
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: What the fuck difference does that make? Columbus was so long ago he might as well been in a fuckin movie. Images you set
- Silvio Dante: The point is: Gary Cooper, the real Gary Cooper or anybody named Cooper never suffered like the Italians. If they met a guy like him, they fucked everybody else. The Italians, the Polacks, and the blacks
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: If he was a Madigan around nowadays he'd be a member of some victim's group: the fundamentalist Christians, the abused cowboys, the gays, whatever the fuck
- Christopher Moltisanti: He was gay, Gary Cooper?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [shouts, irritated] No! Are you listening to me?
- Silvio Dante: Hey, people are suffering
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Did you? Except maybe the Feds?
- Silvio Dante: My grandparents got spit on because they were from Calabria
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [Referring to the surname of the Chicago mobster] let me ask you a question? With all the good things you have in your life: did they come to you because you're Calabrese? I'll tell you the answer. The answer's no. you got a kid in Lackawanna College, you got a wife, who's a piece of ass, at least she was when you married her. You own one of the most profitable topless bars in all north Jersey, now did you get all that because your Italian? No you got it because your you, you're smart because you're whatever the fuck. Where the fuck is our self-esteem? That shit doesn't come from Columbus, The Godfather, or Chef fuckin Boyardee
- Silvio Dante: We've got to tiptoe around the Indians don't we? We can't call our teams the Braves, or the Tomahawks
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: You take it up with Frankie Valli when talk to him
- [during sex]
- Janice Soprano: How much money did you make today, slut?
- Ralph Cifaretto: Three hundred.
- Janice Soprano: That's all, bitch? I'm gonna put you back on the street, ho.
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: [after accepting a collect call from Paulie from prison] speak, how you doing?
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: You know, thanks for the stamps, how you getting on?
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: I feel old
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Listen John I just want to say I hope your feelings weren't hurt too bad and that it never got back to the Mrs.
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: The fuck you talking about?
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: You didn't hear the joke about Ginny? Never mind: let it die in death
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: What joke?
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: John, you're better off not hearing it. Trust me
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: Fuck that I demand you tell me
- Ralph Cifaretto: I represent a group of concerned citizens who are very upset about this protest your "spear heading", no pun intended
- Professor Del Redclay: Who do you represent?
- Ralph Cifaretto: Italians here in New Jersey, good people "family" people and they asked me to tell you that it's not in your best interest to go through with this fuckin thing
- Professor Del Redclay: Well, if you've come here to intimidate me? You don't know much about Indian resolve
- Maggie Donner: Del, should I call security?
- Professor Del Redclay: No
- Ralph Cifaretto: [Showing him a poster of Iron Eyes Cody] you remember this guy?
- Professor Del Redclay: Iron Eyes Cody, he was an actor in the movies
- Ralph Cifaretto: [Listing some of movies he was in] Son of Paleface, Sitting Bull. Your fuckin poster boy. Part Cherokee, part Cree. Wasn't even a fuckin Indian. Second generation Sicilian from Louisiana named Espera DeCorti
- Professor Del Redclay: Well, I think you better leave now
- Ralph Cifaretto: The guy's a total fuckin phony, total fugazi but he kept it quiet. Well, we're not going to. You keep up with your bullshit, we're going to go wide with this thing
- Professor Del Redclay: Knock yourself out
- Professor Del Redclay: [after Ralphie leaves, to his assistant] Jesus Christ is this true? This is a fuckin disaster
- Maggie Donner: [Rubs his arm to conform him] chill out. You didn't know about this? It's been on Access Hollywood, E!
- Professor Del Redclay: [Interrupts her] this is a major PR boner
- Maggie Donner: Del, it's been researched: Cody was definitely a Native American, a total environmentalist
- Professor Del Redclay: Are you sure about this?
- Maggie Donner: Look Del, I'm one eighth Italian myself
- Professor Del Redclay: You are? You never told me that
- Ralph Cifaretto: [Before handing him an envelope with money as a gift to his daughter] there he is. John I'm sorry I missed Allegra's nursing school graduation: unforgivable. But I made it up to her
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: [Smiles, before slapping the envelop out of his hand as a way of not accepting his gift and walking away] stick it in your ass
- Tony Soprano: [Jokingly, suggesting Johnny has a resemblance to the cartoon monster from the breakfast cereal] hey, Count Chocula
- Ralph Cifaretto: What the fuck john?
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: [to Tony, referring to Ralphie] keep him away from me
- Tony Soprano: John, what's going on?
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: [Before walking away] I don't want to talk about it
- Tony Soprano: [Referring to John's demeanor] what's this?
- Ralph Cifaretto: I have no fuckin idea. But I've got better shit to do
- Silvio Dante: You saw how it was with them the other night. Something's going on
- Tony Soprano: Also how is Carmine up my ass about this Freeland Heisen Avenue bullshit? Somebody's talking too much and it's costing me money
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: John, you more laborers on the job site than we got carpenters, what's the problem?
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: The problem is the carpenters are carrying sheet rocking materials, so we ain't getting what we're expecting
- Ralph Cifaretto: Let Massarone hire more laborers off the books
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: [Raising his voice to Ralph] nobody's talking to you
- Ralph Cifaretto: Alright, Jesus
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [Proposing the percentage of the profits in the Soprano's favor, before they all toast to agree] Sixty-five thirty-five
- Carmine Lupertazzi: Johnny, can you explain the other "thing" we want to talk about?
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: Sure, Tony, it's come to our attention you bought property around Freeland Heisen Avenue, and turned it in a week
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: So?
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: You did it with inside knowledge from Ron Zellman
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Got your attention from where?
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: That property is hot because of the Esplanade. We share the Esplanade and we share Zellman. If the Soprano family is going to benefit from it, Carmine feels we should too
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Ok we'll work something out
- Montel Williams: [during his talk show] welcome back, we're here with our guest Dr. Del Redclay, professor of anthropology at Rutgers university and spokesman for the anti-Columbus protest. Also, Mr. Phillip Di Notti who is the president of the Coalition of Italian American Anti-Defamation organization
- Professor Del Redclay: let's start with the "idea" of a parade for a genocidal colonial general, a national holiday no less, such festivities are deeply offensive to us
- Phillip Di Notti: these are pretty "broad" charges, all I know is Italian Americans are extremely proud of Christopher Columbus: admiral of the ocean seas and a great Italian
- Professor Del Redclay: you know very well the compromised position we put forth. Now, if your people want to make it an "Italian pride" parade, we have no problem with that
- Montel Williams: western history does say Columbus discovered America
- Professor Del Redclay: the same "America" that put "your people" in bondage for three centuries
- Montel Williams: but every culture has had to bear the pain in the making of what I think we can all agree is a starkly "economic miracle"
- Phillip Di Notti: he cured polio
- Montel Williams: I have to agree with Phill, the right to vote
- Phillip Di Notti: exactly. Take my grandparents: two simple people from Sicily, who braved the peril-less middle passage
- Montel Williams: [surprised] "middle passage"? That's the term for the slave trade
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [talking privately] The fuck's with you? I count on you as one of the most level-headed guys I got
- Silvio Dante: My father was a Knight of Columbus: an Italian American and I paid money to the American Italian Anti-Defamation League counsel, we're the victims here
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Oh, you wrote a check too?
- Silvio Dante: Let's not forget, it was a friend of ours, Joe Columbo who founded the first Italian-American American Italian Anti-Defamation organization
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [referring to Sil leading an unauthorized demonstration supporting Columbus that resulted in unwanted attention] You were still out of line
- Silvio Dante: You are right: a hundred percent
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: But?
- Silvio Dante: Well, as your consigliere, since you asked, I think the guys and myself too, we need your leadership on this
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [after thinking it over] Alright, good, I understand you wanna do something but use your brain
- Silvio Dante: Believe me, me and Ralphie are working on a few things, this battle is gonna be won on the PR level: hearts and minds. They manipulate your image, Columbus, you manipulate theirs
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [over the phone] good morning
- Assemblyman Zellman: hey, what's up?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: you heard about this protest with the Indians and Columbus Day?
- Assemblyman Zellman: yeah, I heard about it
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: well, we need "someone" to make it "go away"
- Assemblyman Zellman: oh, boy that's a tough one. A real "hot potato", nobody wants to "touch it"
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: we just want a peaceful parade like we've had for years with no interference, what's wrong with that?
- Assemblyman Zellman: well, it's the First Amendment, it's Native Americans, very "sensitive" stuff: my hands are tied on this one... sorry
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: yeah, fine
- Assemblyman Zellman: I will be attending the parade as always, you have my support there
- Janice Soprano: I'm sorry I didn't make it last night, my bible group had a potluck for the homeless and I was on clean-up crew
- Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri: [irritated] Food, food like that solves all the world's problems
- Janice Soprano: We've been neighbors, I know that we don't talk much. If you want to, I'm here for you
- Janice Soprano: [when he doesn't respond] What is it?
- Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri: [before crying, referring to his wife] That day before she had the accident, I was stuck in traffic and my son called, Karen wanted me to pick up some steaks and eggplants and I was mad at her for sending me. I was tired, I was mad at her and I was stuck in traffic because of her accident. She was up the road ahead of me, lying in twisted metal but I didn't know, I could've been with her. I should've been there to help her but I was mad at her. Oh, my sweet Karen, my sweet girl
- Rosalie Aprile: [while in her bedroom] there's no release, I'm surrounded by death: my husband, my son, my friend
- Ralph Cifaretto: I don't know what to tell you
- Rosalie Aprile: there's pieces torn out of me: chunks of me that are dead. I mean, look at me, my youth, my looks, their gone
- Ralph Cifaretto: no, that's from not taking care of yourself. Dwelling over stuff
- Rosalie Aprile: it's not stuff, do you have any idea what it feels like? Do you? Its death, it's pain!
- Ralph Cifaretto: I'm having a lot of trouble dealing with this, I don't know
- Rosalie Aprile: you don't know what?
- Ralph Cifaretto: I don't think I can do this, I don't think I can help you: you need a lot right now, I don't think there's anything I can do
- Rosalie Aprile: you can be there for me: you can comfort me
- Ralph Cifaretto: [irritated] what about me? What do I get out of it?
- Rosalie Aprile: there it is, right there, what do you get? How about your every need taken care of? Sexually, everything, all your shit: it's all about you, isn't it?
- Ralph Cifaretto: it's not all about me, but I mean let's be realistic?
- Rosalie Aprile: let's be realistic? What? You wanna leave me?
- Ralph Cifaretto: [softly] yeah
- Rosalie Aprile: then get the fuck out
- Ralph Cifaretto: it doesn't have to be like this
- Rosalie Aprile: [before Ralphs shakes his head and leaves] how should it be? How the fuck should it be?
- Gabriella Dante: [to Carmela] Really, though, how dare he? After all you've done for this parish!
- Carmela Soprano: [resigned] What are you gonna do?
- Gabriella Dante: [after a long pause] Well, I'm gonna cut him a new one.
- Gabriella Dante: [after entering his office] I'm so upset, I don't know what to say
- Father Phil Intintola: why? What's wrong?
- Gabriella Dante: what's wrong? Carmela is one of your biggest supporters and friends, how dare you let her suffer humiliation and embarrassment at the hands of an "outsider"?
- Father Phil Intintola: I don't know what you mean
- Gabriella Dante: oh, you know "exactly" what I mean. Unfortunately, because of her husband's high profile in the "waste" industry, Carmela's the one who bears the brunt of these insults but there are many of us that were equally offended
- Father Phil Intintola: I am sorry, this is an open forum, you did hear me bring up that new study?
- Gabriella Dante: look, if that's your idea of a good luncheon speaker, I suggest you think about who really keeps this parish alive year after year
- Janice Soprano: [referring to Bobby] he just lost his wife and he had so much sadness: so much love for her, such complete and pure emotion. I felt unworthy to be in his presence, I was so moved by him and then I look at Ralphie
- Dr. Sandy Shaw: you saw in this man the "things" that you want in your life: truth, love
- Janice Soprano: yes. "Somehow", I have to find a way to move from the "darkness" and towards the "light"
- Dr. Sandy Shaw: what does this man do?
- Janice Soprano: he works with my brother but his not like the others
- Dr. Sandy Shaw: Janice...
- Janice Soprano: his different, believe me
- Dr. Sandy Shaw: ok... but back to Ralph, you've got to sit him down and "level" with him, speak the "truth" but with the compassion and respect that your famous for and say good bye for his sake as well as yours
- Janice Soprano: [before crying] your right... it's not his fault
- Dr. Sandy Shaw: [referring to Richie Aprile] The last time that you dated a friend and colleague of your brother's, he left you flat and disappeared into the witness protection program
- Janice Soprano: I know
- Dr. Sandy Shaw: [referring to Ralph Cifaretto] Now, another man who works with your brother, aren't able to meet your basic needs for love and respect, and is involved with another woman
- Janice Soprano: Which brings me back to my childhood, and my mother and my father
- Dr. Sandy Shaw: Now we're talking
- Janice Soprano: where I had no love and no support, and where I was shamed and ridiculed for being artistic
- Dr. Sandy Shaw: In your relationship with these men, you have replaced your father with your brother as a figure of authority that you need to prove something to. You set up these scenarios with these men similar to your father and brother seeking your brother IE, your father's acceptance. The hell with them
- Janice Soprano: I know
- Dr. Sandy Shaw: The work now is to make new choices that have nothing to do with old patterns
- Janice Soprano: I know, I want it, I do. God gave me the strength