It was not until I was elected Governor that I myself came to understand it.

We were still accustomed to talking of the "machine" as if it were something merely political, with which business had nothing to do.

Senator Platt did not use his political position to advance his private fortunes--therein differing absolutely from many other political bosses.

He lived in hotels and had few extravagant tastes.

Indeed, I could not find that he had any tastes at all except for politics, and on rare occasions for a very dry theology wholly divorced from moral implications.