Zitat des Tages von Marion Barry:
If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.
The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.
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.
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?
What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?
This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.
People have criticised 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.
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.
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.
First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.
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.
When you know more, you can do more.
I like boxing.
The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
In Washington, I have worked hard for the people, and I've been loved by the people.
I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.
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?
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?