George R. R. Martin Quotes
I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.
Martin, George R. R. A Game of Thrones. Bantam Books, 1996.
Chavez frequently insulted officials and leaders of other countries. See linked quotes for examples.
Many have speculated that this personal grudge may have been one of the motivating factors leading Bush to his disastrous Iraq War decisions.
Canada's first female Prime Minister
Statement made by Cheney to Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector, regarding the inspections in 2002/2003 of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.
La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
There were very few politicians who would dare to even unfavorably mention the KKK. Long however took them on directly.
Carter beat Kennedy in the Primaries bit lost to Ronald Reagan in the General Election.
George Raymond Richard Martin, also known as GRRM, is an American novelist and short story writer, screenwriter, and television producer. He is the author of the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire, which was adapted into the Emmy Award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–2019).
