Tony Hale Quotes
If a D.C. event doesn't have crab cakes, it's low-rent and you need to flee.
Hale, Tony. Interview by Helena Andrews-Dyer. "Tony Hale on 'Veep' and D.C." The Washington Post, WP Company, 23 Apr. 2015.
At the time of this quotation, Thompson was campaigning for the Republican Presidential Nomination for which he did not make a good showing in the primaries.
Summers had been a student and professor at Harvard and then served in the Treasury Department. He then returned to Harvard as its President where he had a very stormy and political tenure. University politics can be particularly difficult and nasty. When President Obama asked Summers to be his Economic Advisor, Summers leapt at the chance to get out of the Harvard conention he as in, thus coming to Washington to “get away” from politics. His two tenures in Washington taught him a great deal about practical economics as opposed to the theoretical economics of Harvard and other universities.
This quotation illustrates a new tactic adopted by the Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) in 2014. They trained very young children (with their parents permission) in how to handle themselves in a protest when the police arrive and tell them to disperse. By having children as young as 11 protesting shutting down streets in Washington so that they would get arrested. Coping with young children committing civil disobedience was something the police were not used to and involved much more complex procedures than arresting adult demonstrators. In addition, the sight of such young children being arrested for civil disobedience attracted much attention from the media, thereby publicizing the immigration issue. Elias and his mother were both U. S. citizens. In 2006 Elias’s father, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, returned to Mexico to apply for a visa to visit his wife and son. He was denied, so he crossed the border without papers. He was deported from the family home in 2008 and Elias and his mother had not seen him since then. Under the then existing immigration rules and laws, even a person whose spouse and children were U. S. citizens residing in America, could not even get a visa to visit them much less get citizenship. The Obama administration’s “family friendly” policies collapsed with immigration where the policies broke up otherwise intact families.
Anthony Russell Hale is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his role in the Fox comedy series Arrested Development as the neurotic Buster Bluth. Hale played Gary Walsh on the HBO comedy Veep from 2012 until its conclusion in 2019, for which he won the 2013 and 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
