Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.

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

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.

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.

The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth

Also, vampires don't eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I'd rather die.

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

You can't say, I won't write today because that excuse will extend into several days, then several months, then... you are not a writer anymore, just someone who dreams about being a writer.

The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind.

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.

There's more to light than the opposite of dark.

Your way is the best for you, but that is no sign it is the best for another.