…they’re a contemptible lot [politicians], and you’ll agree that I had my full share of the qualities of character necessary in political life. I could lie and dissemble with the best, give short change with a hearty clap on the shoulder, slip out from under long before the blow fell, talk, toady, and turn tail as fast as a Yankee fakir selling patent pill. Mark you, I’ve never been given to interfering in other folk’s affairs if I could help it, so I suppose that would have disqualified me.
Flash For Freedom!, p.13, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.
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