Marion Barry
Marion Barry
Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.was an American politician who served as the second Mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991, and again as the fourth mayor from 1995 to 1999. A Democrat, Barry had served three tenures on the Council of the District of Columbia, representing as an at-large member from 1975 to 1979 and in Ward 8 from 1993 to 1995, and again from 2005 to 2014. In the 1960s he was involved in the Civil Rights...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 March 1936
CityItta Bena, MS
CountryUnited States of America
What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?
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.
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.
Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.
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.
My greatest work comes in the community.
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.
We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go.
The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.
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? WOULD IT!?!
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.
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.
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.
When you know more, you can do more.