"Have you ever heard," he asked with biting sarcasm, "that I was easy to manage and that that was why certain people put me in office ?" "Yes, I've heard that." As the young man replied, Darrow turned from the window and looked at him attentively.
"And may I ask what else you have heard ?" inquired Vetch.
Stephen laughed and coloured.

"I've heard that it was becoming difficult to do anything with you." "Because I have the people behind me ?" "Well, because you think you have the people behind you." Vetch leaned forward with a confiding movement, and flicked the ashes of his objectionable cigar on the immaculate sleeve of Stephen's coat.
Yet, even in the careless gesture, a breath of freshness and health, of mental and physical cleanliness, seemed to emanate like an invigorating breeze from his robust spirit.

"Of course I admit," he said thoughtfully, "that we are obliged to have some kind of party organization to begin with.

There must be method and policy and all sorts of team-pulling and log-rolling until you get started.

That kind of thing is useful just as far as it helps and not a step farther.