Can you, I question, achieve anything important enough to compensate for what you sacrifice ?" Darrow turned again with his dry laugh.

"You speak as if public honesty, by which I reckon you mean clean elections and unsold offices, were something we had actually possessed," he said.
"Oh, I know the old proceedings were bad enough," replied Stephen, "but I am trying to find out how the Governor expects to make them better.
You understand that I am trying merely to see your point of view--to get at the roots of your theory of government.

What you tell me will never find its way to the public." "I realize that," said Vetch gravely, and he added with a quick glance at Darrow: "Do you think if I were not honest that I'd talk to you so frankly ?" Stephen smiled.

"It might be.

The political coat has many colours.