"There’s an honest graft, and I’m an example of how it works. I might sum up the whole thing by sayin’: “I seen my opp…"

"Every good man looks after his friends, and any man who doesn’t isn’t likely to be popular. p. 5"

"If I have a good thing to hand out in private life, I give it to a friend. Why shouldn’t I do the same in public life…"

"Another kind of honest graft. Tammany has raised a good many salaries. There was an awful howl by the reformers, but …"

"The Irish, above all people in the world, hates a traitor. p. 35"

"The Wall Street banker thinks it shameful to raise a department clerk’s salary from $1500 to $1800 a year, but every …"

"As a matter of policy, if nothing else, why should the Tammany leaders go into such dirty business, when there is so …"

"Some young men think they can learn how to be successful in politics from books, and they cram their heads with all s…"

"The men who rule have practiced keepin’ their tongues still, not exercisin’ them. p. 8"

"Everybody is talkin’ these days about Tammany men growin’ rich on graft, but nobody thinks of drawin’ the distinction…"