A franchise for ninety-nine years; think of it!" "Why don't you men wake up and oust McQuade?
I'll tell you right here, Jack, you have no one to blame but yourself.

Scoundrels like McQuade are always in the minority; but they remain in power simply because men like you think politics a dirty business and something for an honest man to keep out of.

Run for mayor yourself, if you want clean politics.

Rouse up an independent party." "Do you know what they call me up there ?" Bennington laughed.
"I confess to ignorance." "Well, the newspapers say covertly that I'm all but a naturalized Englishman, a snob, when I'm only a recluse, a man who dresses every night for dinner, who dines instead of eats.

There are some things it is impossible to understand, and one is the interest the newspapers take in the private affairs of men.