Gail Carriger Quotes
Stop playing verbal games with me, madam, or I shall go out into that ballroom, find your mother, and bring her here
Carriger, Gail. Soulless. Orbit, 2009.
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.
Chavez frequently insulted officials and leaders of other countries. See linked quotes for examples.
Gail Carriger is the pen name of Tofa Borregaard, an author of steampunk fiction and an American archaeologist. She was born in Bolinas, an unincorporated community in Marin County, California, and attended high school at Marin Academy. She received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College, a masters of science in archaeological materials at England's University of Nottingham in 2000, and a master of arts in anthropology (with a focus on archaeology) at the University of California Santa Cruz in 2008. She is a 2010 recipient of the Alex Awards.
