54 Quotes by Marion Barry

Love is very fleeting with me. I don't know why.

I love serving people. I love helping people empower themselves.

Who can better help our city recover than someone who himself has gone through recovery?

In Washington, I have worked hard for the people, and I've been loved by the people.

I like boxing.

Washington, D.C., had never seen my style of politics.

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

Why should blacks feel elated about seeing men walk on the moon when millions of poor blacks and whites don't have enough money to buy food to eat on earth?

What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That's what brought me down.