Al D'Amato Quotes
If she were a man, I would have knocked her flat. Instead I whispered to her, 'Liz, you are as ugly on the inside as you are on the outside.'
Context
Describing his relations with his 1980 Democratic opponent, Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman:
Topics
Abuse
Bullying
Discrimination
Inequality
Insults, Rebukes
Intimidation
Respect
Self Esteem
Sexism, Sexists
Violence
Misogyny, Anti-Female, Anti-Feminism
Double Standard
Gender Equality, Gender Inequality
Hostility
Physical Appearance
Compliments
Double Standards
Emotional Abuse
Gender Bias
Verbal Abuse
Verbal Aggression
Citations
Alphonse D'Amato, U. S. Senator (Republican, NY), Power, Pasta and Politics, Hyperion, 1995
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
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Alfonse Marcello D'Amato is an American lawyer and former New York politician. A Republican, he served as United States Senator from New York from 1981 to 1999. He subsequently founded a lobbying firm, Park Strategies.