Marion Barry famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Marion Barry

#Christian #Humble #Men
I had my bad times. But the good news is that every time this has happened I've taken full responsibility for it. I don't try to duck it, I don't try to dodge it, I don't try to bullshit about it. Truth crushed to the ground will rise again. And that's what my life has been about.
-- Marion Barry

#Taken #Responsibility #Ducks
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry

#Funny #Country #Stupid
My personal view is very simple: What happens in your bedroom, it's up to you. If you want to use gay marriage as an affectionate kind of thing you're doing, do it.
-- Marion Barry

#Gay #Simple #Views
If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.
-- Marion Barry

#Silly #Killing #Crime
My greatest work comes in the community.
-- Marion Barry

#Community
Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.
-- Marion Barry

#Running #Politics #Mouths
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 not where you've been but where you're going.
-- Marion Barry

#Done #Should #Mayors
There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths.
-- Marion Barry

#Real #Two #Kind
And no offense, but letâ€™s grow our own teachers, letâ€™s grow our own nursesâ€”and so that we donâ€™t have to be scrounging around in our community clinics and other kinds of placesâ€”having to hire people from somewhere else.
-- Marion Barry

#Teacher #Nurse #People
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.
-- Marion Barry

#Guy #Other Guys #Code
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!?!
-- Marion Barry

#Responsibility #Water #People
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.
-- Marion Barry

#Law #Stories #Slavery
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.
-- Marion Barry

#People #President #Want
The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.
-- Marion Barry

#Weather #Diversity #Long
We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go.
-- Marion Barry

#Dirty #Opening Up #Racism
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.
-- Marion Barry

#Two #Dumb #Gone
Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control] legislation.
-- Marion Barry

#Strong #Gun #Virginia
What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?
-- Marion Barry

#Law #Politics #Doe
When you know more, you can do more.
-- Marion Barry

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