George Washington Plunkitt - City Quotes

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There's the biggest kind of a difference between political looters and politicians who make a fortune out of politics by keepin' their eyes wide open. The looter goes in for himself alone without considerin' his organization or his city. The politician looks after his own interests, the organization's interests, and the city's interests all at the same time. See the distinction?

George Washington Plunkitt
The time is comin' and though I'm no youngster, I may see it, when New York City will break away from the State and become a state itself.

George Washington Plunkitt
Most of the leaders are plain American citizens, of the people and near to the people, and they have all the education they need to whip the dudes who part their name in the middle and to run the City Government.

George Washington Plunkitt
Who is better fitted to run the railroads and the gas plants and the ferries than the men who make a business of lookin' after the interests of the city?

George Washington Plunkitt
Say, I don't wish I was a poet, for if I was, I guess I'd be livin' in a garret on no dollars a week instead of runnin' a great contractin' and transportation business which is doin' pretty well, thank you; but, honest, now, the notion takes me sometimes to yell poetry of the red-hot-hail-glorious-land kind when I think of New York City as a state by itself.

George Washington Plunkitt