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" If you want to act like a butthead, your butt is going to get locked up. "

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" You know, public service is serious enough on its own, and what I've found is if you take yourself take yourself too seriously in this business, you'll lose sight of what it is that you're trying to get done. So I mean I've tried to have the proper mix of being a serious public servant, but also still being a regular guy. "

" Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport. "

" There is no Democratic or Republican way to fill a pothole. "

" There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon. "

" Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them. "

" I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot. "

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" Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to support another African-American. "

" We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up. "

" I'm honored to serve as mayor of my hometown where our founders started America with three simple words: 'We, the people.' And when they said 'people' they didn't mean 'corporations.' "

" Philadelphians are a gritty, tough people who will help you when you're down. "

" To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents on their terms, and a tough political skin. "

" You get respect when you give respect. That's how you get respect. "

" I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo. "

" Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done. "

" A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns. "

" For those of us in the political business, generally, it's been pretty much an unwritten but understood rule that family and children are out of bounds, that you don't attack someone's family. "

" We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade. "

" In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent. "

" What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?' "

" We all pay federal taxes that we send to Washington and it is not unusual that as Americans we would expect some federal investment in the cities and metro areas because we're the ones that are generating the economic activity. "

" Vice President Biden is the real deal. He'll give it to you straight. He communicates in a way that I think connects with people at a real level. "

" The federal government... knows how to put a missile in someone's room half way around the world with technology. Why don't we use some of that technology to save some lives here in America? "

" Part of the problem in politics is that people only look at the next four to eight years: kick the can down the road and say, 'Hey, it's the next person's problem.' "

" I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to. "

" Our economy grows from the middle out, not the top down. "

" We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city. "

" I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color may feel versus language that I think now crosses the line and goes into hate. "

" I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate. "

" Parents who neglect their children, who don't know where they are, who don't know what they're doing, who don't know who they're hanging out with, you're gonna find yourselves spending some quality time with your kids, in jail, together. "

" The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing what's going around you. "