Boss Tweed quotes

“I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating.”
-- Boss Tweed

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“I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.”
-- Boss Tweed

Source : "Article IV: An Episode in Municipal Government" by Charles F. Wingate, The North American Review (p. 150), July 1875.

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“The way to have power is to take it.”
-- Boss Tweed

#Political Quotes #Way Quotes

“As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?”
-- Boss Tweed

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“The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.”
-- Boss Tweed

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“Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures!”
-- Boss Tweed

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“When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.”

“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”

“If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.”

“The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”

“Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.”

Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.96, Penguin

“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”

“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”

“If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.”

“When one door opens, so does another one.”

Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.105, BOOM! Studios

“Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?”

Source : Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston (2016). “The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill”, p.1629, Del Rey