Top 33 Marion Barry Quotes

#1. I had my bad times. But the good news is that every time this has happened I've taken full responsibility for it. I don't try to duck it, I don't try to dodge it, I don't try to bullshit about it. Truth crushed to the ground will rise again. And that's what my life has been about.

Marion Barry

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#2. There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths.

Marion Barry

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#3. We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.

Joel Osteen

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#4. The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that's old people's hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that's what you've got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else.

David LaChapelle

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#5. When a man wants nothing, it's evil to tempt him with something.

Marty Rubin

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#6. 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?

Marion Barry

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#7. I want to do good work. I want the opportunity to work with good people, and the only way I'm gonna do that is to commit 110% - you get out what you put in.

Christian Bale

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#8. My personal view is very simple: What happens in your bedroom, it's up to you. If you want to use gay marriage as an affectionate kind of thing you're doing, do it.

Marion Barry

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#9. 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.

Marion Barry

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#10. 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.

Marion Barry

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#11. First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.

Marion Barry

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#12. This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.

Marion Barry

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#13. I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.

Marion Barry

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#14. Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control] legislation.

Marion Barry

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#15. I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.

Marion Barry

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#16. 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.

Marion Barry

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#17. Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Marion Barry

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#18. What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

Marion Barry

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#19. If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.

Marion Barry

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#20. A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#21. People have criticised 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.

Marion Barry

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#22. People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?

Marion Barry

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#23. Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.

Marion Barry

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#24. The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

Marion Barry

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#25. And no offense, but let's grow our own teachers, let's grow our own nurses - and so that we don't have to be scrounging around in our community clinics and other kinds of places - having to hire people from somewhere else.

Marion Barry

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#26. The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.

Marion Barry

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#27. When you know more, you can do more.

Marion Barry

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#28. Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.

Clare Short

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#29. The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.

Marion Barry

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#30. I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

Marion Barry

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#31. We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go.

Marion Barry

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#32. My greatest work comes in the community.

Marion Barry

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#33. Our recent history should have made one thing clear. Women's rights are human rights. Any foreign policy that fails to recognize this effectively dehumanizes half the human race.

Jack Holland

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