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“Once let a man grow up amidst Brooklyn’s cobblestones, with the odor of Newton Creek and Gowanus Canal ever in his nostrils, and there’s no place in the world for him except Brooklyn. p. 41”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 10, Brooklynites Natural-Born Hayseeds

“The Wall Street banker thinks it shameful to raise a department clerk’s salary from $1500 to $1800 a year, but every man who draws a salary himself says: “That’s all right. I wish it was me.” And he feels very much like votin’ the Tammany ticket on election day, just out of sympathy.”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 1, Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft

“Brought up in Tammany Hall, he has learned how to reach the hearts of the great mass of voters. He does not bother about reaching their heads. It is his belief that arguments and campaign literature have never gained votes. p. 91”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 23, Strenuous Life of the Tammany District Leader

“Just remember that there’s thirty-five Assembly districts in New York County, and thirty-six district leaders reachin’ out for the Tammany dough-bag for somethin’ to keep up the patriotism of ten thousand workers, and you wouldn’t wonder that the cry for more, more, is goin’ up from every district organization now and forevermore. Amen. p. 76”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 18, On the Use of Money in Politics

“I rope them all in by givin’ them opportunities to show themselves off. I don’t trouble them with political arguments. I just study human nature and act accordin’. p. 26”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 6, To Hold Your District: Study Human Nature and Act Accordin’

“I ain’t up on sillygisms, but I can give you some arguments that nobody can answer. p. 13”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 3, The Curse of Civil Service Reform

“Consolidation didn’t make him a New Yorker, and nothin’ on earth can. A man born in Germany can settle down and become a good New Yorker. So can an Irishman; in fact, the first word an Irish boy learns in the old country is “New York,” and when he grows up and comes here, he is at home right away. Even a Jap or a Chinaman can become a New Yorker, but a Brooklynite never can. p. 41”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 10, Brooklynites Natural-Born Hayseeds

“I know more than one young man in past years who worked for the ticket and was just overflowin’ with patriotism, but when he was knocked out by the civil service humbug he got to hate his country and became an Anarchist. p. 11”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 3, The Curse of Civil Service Reform

“The time is comin’ and though I’m no youngster, I may see it, when New York City will break away from the State and become a state itself. p. 65”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 16, Plunkitt’s Fondest Dream

“Before then when a party won, its workers got everything in sight. That was somethin’ to make a man patriotic. p. 14”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 3, The Curse of Civil Service Reform

“I honestly believe that drink is the greatest curse of the day, except, of course, civil service, and that it has driven more young men to ruin than anything except civil service examinations. p. 78”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 19, The Successful Politician Does Not Drink

“I want to add that no matter how well you learn to play the political game, you won’t make a lastin’ success of it if you're a drinkin’ man. p. 77”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 19, The Successful Politician Does Not Drink

“Big Tim made money out of liquor—sellin’ it to other people. That’s the only way to get good out of liquor. p. 79”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 19, The Successful Politician Does Not Drink

“Who is better fitted to run the railroads and the gas plants and the ferries than the men who make a business of lookin’ after the interests of the city? p. 54”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 13, On Municipal Ownership

“The politicians who make a lastin’ success in politics are the men who are always loyal to their friends, even up to the gate of State prison, if necessary; men who keep their promises and never lie. p. 35”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 8, Ingratitude in Politics

“Jimmy O’Brien brought the manufacture of “Democracies” down to an exact science, and reduced the cost of production so as to bring it within the reach of all. Any man with $50 can now have a “Democracy” of his own. p. 58”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 14 Tammany the Only Lastin’ Democracy

“Some young men think they can learn how to be successful in politics from books, and they cram their heads with all sorts of college rot. They couldn’t make a bigger mistake. p. 7”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 2, How to Become a Statesman

“I knew what was comin’ when a young Irishman drops whisky and takes to beer and long pipes in a German saloon. That young man is today one of the wildest Anarchists in town. p. 12”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 3, The Curse of Civil Service Reform

“You can’t study human nature in books. Books is a hindrance more than anything else. p. 25”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 6, To Hold Your District: Study Human Nature and Act Accordin’

“Then will return the good old times, when our district leaders could have nice comfortable primary elections at some place selected by themselves and let in only men that they approved of as good Democrats. p. 83”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 20, Bosses Preserve the Nation

“Oh, yes, that is a good way to do up the so-called bosses, but have you ever thought what would become of the country if the bosses were put out of business, and their places were taken by a lot of cart-tail orators and college graduates? It would mean chaos. p. 81”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 20, Bosses Preserve the Nation

“The most successful saloonkeepers don’t drink themselves and they understand that my temperance is a business proposition, just like their own. p. 77”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 19, The Successful Politician Does Not Drink

“Putin’ on style don’t pay in politics. p. 50”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 12, Dangers of the Dress Suit in Politics

“The Irish, above all people in the world, hates a traitor. p. 35”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 8, Ingratitude in Politics

“I know it’s an awful temptation, the hankerin’ to show off your learnin’. I’ve felt it myself, but I always resist it. I know the awful consequences. p. 53”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 12, Dangers of the Dress Suit in Politics

“Politics is as much a regular business as the grocery or the dry-goods or the drug business. You've got to be trained up to it or you're sure to fail. p. 19”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 4, Reformers Only Mornin’ Glories

“That’s the a, b, c of politics. It ain’t easy work to get up to q and z. You have to give nearly all your time and attention to it. p. 20”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 4, Reformers Only Mornin’ Glories

“It’s because a Brooklynite is a natural-born hayseed, and can never become a real New Yorker. p. 41”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 10, Brooklynites Natural-Born Hayseeds

“There’s the biggest kind of a difference between political looters and politicians who make a fortune out of politics by keepin’ their eyes wide open. The looter goes in for himself alone without considerin’ his organization or his city. The politician looks after his own interests, the organization’s interests, and the city’s interests all at the same time. See the distinction? p. 29”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 7, On The Shame of the Cities

“Ought these good people be subjected to the immoral influence of money taken from the saloon tainted money? Out of respect for the tender consciences of these pious people, the Raines law ought to exempt them from all contamination from the plunder that comes from the saloon traffic. Say, mark that sarcastic. Some people who ain’t used to fine sarcasm might think I meant it. p. 85”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 21, Concerning Excise

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