That's about where I stand." "Good; mighty good, Dan.

All the rest of us want is for you to holler that in your biggest foghorn voice and you'll find the crowd with you." "But if the crowd isn't with me, it won't make a bit of difference; I shall bark just the same." "Now that we've got down to brass tacks, I'll tell you what I've thought ever since Bassett got his clamps on the party: that he really hasn't any qualities of leadership; that grim, silent way of his is a good deal of a bluff.

If anybody ever has the nerve to set off a firecracker just behind him, he'll run a mile.

The newspapers keep flashing him up in big headlines all the time, and that helps to keep the people fooled.

The last time I saw him was just after he put through that corporation bill you broke on, and he didn't seem to have got much fun out of his victory; he looked pretty gray and worried.