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

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 best thing that can happen to anyone is for them to gain an education that is aligned to their purpose in life.

Start with an honest analysis of why you are in opposition, not in government.

And, while I may not live to live them/ Rest assured, ladies and gentlemen/For I have lived more than most/By just dreaming..."- Dreams, Dreams by Mansi Tejpal

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.