“I’ll tell you something. This country is going to the dogs. You know, it used to be when you bought a politician, that son of a bitch stayed bought.” Roy L. Fuchs
That’s a good line. Kind of like the hack, George Washington Plunkitt, who expounded on graft and why he only practiced honest graft
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