Talk:Marion Barry

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• 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.
• What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because it deems it necessary?
• 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.
• I am one of those mayors whose management style is to allow free and unlimited debate, to a point.
• The laws of this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.
• I am Mayor For Life.
• The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
• I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.
• I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.
• I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?
• The Lord Giveth, and the Lord Taketh Away
  • Barry quoting Job 1:21 to explain his plan for snow removal after a 1996 snow storm that crippled Washington, DC.
  • "... this is from the Wash Post, if my memory holds, probably not the former mayor: ‘Mayor Barry’s snow removal plan is Biblical: what the Lord giveth, the Lord will take away."[1]
  • "The Lord brought the snow, the Lord will take it away." [2]
  • "Mayor Marion Barry once enunciated his stunningly simple snow removal plan. Hey, it'll melt. "[3]
  • "Barry’s snow removal strategy could be summed up in one word – spring"[4]
• He is more corrupt than me! (in reference to the current mayor at the time, Adrian Fenty.)