"People have criticized me because my security detail……" — Marion Barry
"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 kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are."
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Marion Barry
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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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I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery…
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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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