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
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.
There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths.
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.
The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
I'm just outraged by this. Our young people have enough problems already.