More from Marion Barry

  1. Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
  2. They made all this up to justify questioning me. It's all made up. I don't know what happened. Whatever they say was all made up.
  3. There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.
  4. People have criticized me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who w…
  5. What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because it deems it necessary?
  6. 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.
  7. I am one of those mayors whose management style is to allow free and unlimited debate, to a point.
  8. The laws of this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.

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