Clergyman's

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
- George Washington Plunkitt

It’s because a Brooklynite is a natural-born hayseed, and can never become a real New Yorker.
- George Washington Plunkitt

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.
- George Washington Plunkitt

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.
- George Washington Plunkitt

There’s always a certain number of suckers and a certain number of men lookin’ for a chance to take them in, and the suckers are sure to be took one way or another. It’s the everlastin’ law of demand and supply.
- George Washington Plunkitt

There’s always a certain number of suckers and a certain number of men lookin’ for a chance to take them in, and the suckers are sure to be took one way or another. It’s the everlastin’ law of demand and supply.
- George Washington Plunkitt

The railroad is a great public institution, and I was never an enemy of public institutions.
- George Washington Plunkitt

Men ain’t in politics for nothin’. They want to get somethin’ out of it.
- George Washington Plunkitt

Men ain’t in politics for nothin’. They want to get somethin’ out of it.
- George Washington Plunkitt

Men ain’t in politics for nothin’. They want to get somethin’ out of it.
- George Washington Plunkitt