Kwame Kilpatrick

Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I loved the city, so the feeling in 2001 [election] first was shock, then (I was) nervous, then scared but then it's…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

There were never a lot of attacks on my work. We were building more parks than were ever built in the city,…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don't even want to be a part of that, but there is…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I can be the mayor; I can do it right now. I can go in there right now and put things together.…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I was never fearful or scared. I knew God had me and my wife and children knew it as well so we…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

This is the United States of America and unfortunately, race still matters to a lot of people. The evil head of racism…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

When you are going through something like compaign run nothing happens without Allah's permission. So a lot of the times you just…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

“men, especially in the African American community” know they’re not supposed to cry or “bow down,”

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I know in the Christian church the old ladies use to say "what the devil meant for bad God meant for good."…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term,

— Kwame Kilpatrick

Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

As a matter of fact since Barack Obama has been president it is more overt - I believe - than it's been…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I learned that you can go after things before you are ready and so if you are going after it, you need…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I've been mayor so I believe there is something else for me. I don't know what that is yet, but I definitely…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

My kids want to go back to Detroit everyday, that's their home. They want to be there. But Detroit is going through…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I don't think there has been any mayor in America scrutinized that way. I don't think there has been any mayor as…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

— Kwame Kilpatrick

We do need brothers and sisters to go into elected offices and political offices and do that, but my spirit is telling…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

— Kwame Kilpatrick