Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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? "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

Marion Barry

Life

Lesson

You

" The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice. "

" 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? "

Marion Barry

Responsibility

Blame

" Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. "

" 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? "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff. "

" 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. "

" When you know more, you can do more. "

Marion Barry

You

Know

" If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate. "

" White folks may let you in their country clubs to play golf, invite you out to dinner, take you out to play tennis, but when it comes to dividing up the money, that's a whole 'nother story. "

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

" I promise you a police car on every sidewalk. "

" What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? "

Marion Barry

Laws

Just Because

" Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. "

" 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

Defeated

Less

" 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. "

Marion Barry

Pleasure

Need

" 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. "

" First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl. "

" The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist. "