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.

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

When you know more, you can do more.

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

As the sun rose I could see Etna, a truncated cone with a plume of smoke over it like the quill of a pen stuck in a pewter inkpot, rising out of the haze to the north of where I was treading water.

Persistence is what keeps you hanging on when hanging on gets tough.

When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

See? You’re the crazy one, you redheaded freak. I’ve been attempting to translate the phrase into Latin. If I ever succeed, I shall make it my personal motto.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.

Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction.

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.