54 Quotes by Marion Barry

Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.

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.

My greatest work comes in the community.

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.

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.

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.

There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths.

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 community clinics and other kinds of places—having to hire people from somewhere else.