"I read a funny story about how the……" — Marion Barry
"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. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican."
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27 Quotes by Marion Barry
Marion Barry has 27 quotes on this site.
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.
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Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong…
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I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by…
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We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to…
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The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.
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People have criticized me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there…
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People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it…
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I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply…
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There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys,…
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And no offense, but let’s grow our own teachers, let’s grow our own nurses—and so that we don’t have to…
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There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths.
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More Abraham Quotes
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to…
— Annie Besant
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Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all…
— Drew Carey
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Thus is Jesus in all respects fitted for his mighty work of redeeming. He is very man and very God.…
— Horatius Bonar
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I support the framework that the bipartisan group of senators are working on...We have to remember the 11 million people…
— Darrell Issa
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy…
— Henri Nouwen
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The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States…
— Aberjhani
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Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham,…
— Ronald Reagan
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I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam…
— John Charles Polanyi
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I think enormous harm is done by religion - not just in the name of religion, but actually by religion.…
— Steven Weinberg
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We see in Islam a religion that traces its origins back to God's call on Abraham. We share your belief…
— George W. Bush
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Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to…
— Murray Rothbard
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