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Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

When you know more, you can do more.

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.

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

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

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

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?

My greatest work comes in the community.

I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.

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.

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