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Quotes from D.C. Mayor Marion
Barry
"The contagious people of Washington have
stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment
weather."
- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk."
- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"If you take out the killings, Washington
actually has a very very low crime rate."
- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"First, it was not a strip bar, it was
an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl."
- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington,DC
"Bitch set me up."
- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"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 no less."
- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"The laws in this city are clearly racist.
All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist."
- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"I am making this trip to Africa because
Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or
Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that
to Africa?"
- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"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."
- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"The brave men who died in Vietnam, more
than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice."
- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"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."
- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"What right does Congress have to go around
making laws just because they deem it necessary?"
- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"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 them then? WOULD IT!?!"
- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"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 humble man."
- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
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