Quote #7

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.

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  1. What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because it deems it necessary?
  2. I am one of those mayors whose management style is to allow free and unlimited debate, to a point.
  3. 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…
  4. The laws of this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.
  5. 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.
  6. I am Mayor For Life.
  7. 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.
  8. The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

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