Jimmy Walker Quote

A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

As quoted in: The Golden Book Magazine, Volume 11 (Review of Reviews Corporation, 1930), p. 54. Also in: The New Yorker, Volume 17, Issue 2 (1941), p. 19. And in: Familiar Quotations (1968) by John Bartlett, p. 941