“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? p. 54”

— George Washington Plunkitt

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 13, On Municipal Ownership

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New York State Senator 1842–1924

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