"Wire-puller" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... men who claim to have carried every Presidential election—the late Mr. Guiteau was one of these geniuses—but it is also true that there are many who would by not working have produced very great changes. Forney was a mighty wire-puller, if not exactly before the Lord, at least before the elections, and he opined that I had secured the success. There were certainly other men—e.g., Peacock, who influenced as many votes as the Weekly Press, and George Francis Train—without whose aid Pennsylvania ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland
... recent debates in the House of Commons one can see every stock trick of the wire-puller in operation. Particularly we have the old dodge of the man who is "in theory quite in sympathy with Proportional Representation, but ..." It is, he declares regretfully, too late. It will cause delay. Difficult to make arrangements. ...
— In The Fourth Year - Anticipations of a World Peace (1918) • H.G. Wells
... Statesman—if there be such; Mr. Pseudo-Statesman, Placeman, Party Leader, Wirepuller; Mr. Amateur Statesman, Dilettante Lord, Civil Servant; Mr. Clubman, Litterateur, Newspaper Scribe; Mr. People's Candidate, ...
— Ginx's Baby • Edward Jenkins
... interference in regard to it would seem like a desire to thrust himself before the merchant's notice—and that, too, in a needy manner, as if he sought employment at his hands; but on consideration he came to the conclusion that he might act as a wire-puller, give Baldwin the benefit of his knowledge, and allow him to reap the credit and the emoluments. But for a long time the honest diver would not listen to such a suggestion, and was only constrained to give in at last when Edgar threatened to ...
— Under the Waves - Diving in Deep Waters • R M Ballantyne
... Bonner from a front seat, thus signalizing that astute wire-puller's definite choice of a place in the bandwagon. "Tell us what ...
— The Brown Mouse • Herbert Quick |
