Raw Meat is a quoteblog by Aaron Swartz.

[LaGuardia] was mastering New York City as no mayor since Peter Stuyvesant had mastered it. … Doffing his big Stetson for a big fire chief’s helmet, he dashed to fires … from which he emerged covered with soot, and he groped through smoke and flames to the side of two firemen pinned under a collapsed wall and knelt by them whispering encouragement until they were freed. He raced to train wrecks in the sidecar of a police motorcycle, battered down doors at the head of police raiding parties, snatched the baton from an orchestra conductor to lead a bravura performance of “The Stars and Stripes Forever” and conducted the Sanitation Department band at a special performance in Carnegie Hall …. He gave a city hungering for leadership the impression that there was no part of his domain that he did not dominate.