Quotes About Boss Tweed

#1. New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

Andrew Cuomo

#2. William "Boss" Tweed was in such thorough control in New York that he made money off of the report the committee printed after investigating him.

H.W. Brands

#3. If there's true emotional content in a situation between characters, all you do is reveal it.

Diana Gabaldon

#4. Give me a day. Just today. If that works, then give me tomorrow.

Kelly Oram

#5. I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.

Teju Cole

#6. I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

Boss Tweed

#7. The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

Boss Tweed

#8. 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

#9. A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.

Jay Parini

#10. Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.

Jim Talent

#11. I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.

Mitch Kapor

#12. You are strong. You are a wonderful, strong human being.

Elly Griffiths

#13. There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.

Henri Matisse

#14. As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?

Boss Tweed

#15. I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating.

Boss Tweed

#16. What await you; golden treasures of risks taken.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. 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

#18. I have always believed that a single talented analyst, working very hard, can cover an amazing amount of investment landscape, and this belief remains unchallenged in my mind.

Michael Burry

#19. The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital - in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations.

Noam Chomsky

#20. The way to have power is to take it.

Boss Tweed