Quote #5

People have criticized 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.

More from Marion Barry

  1. 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.
  2. What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because it deems it necessary?
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
  6. I am one of those mayors whose management style is to allow free and unlimited debate, to a point.
  7. Goddamn bitch set me up!
  8. The laws of this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.

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