Quote #8

I am one of those mayors whose management style is to allow free and unlimited debate, to a point.

More from Marion Barry

  1. 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.
  2. The laws of this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.
  3. What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because it deems it necessary?
  4. I am Mayor For Life.
  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 w…
  6. The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
  7. 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.
  8. I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.

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