Marion Barry Quotes

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• Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
• If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.
• Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control] legislation.
• I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis…
• We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go.
• The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.
• People have criticized me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to…
• I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's.…
• People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix…
• I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a…
• There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys, that I am their friend.
• And no offense, but let’s grow our own teachers, let’s grow our own nurses—and so that we don’t have to be scrounging around in our…
• There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths.
• I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's…
• Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.
• My greatest work comes in the community.
• When you know more, you can do more.
• What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?
• Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
• I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.

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