Take your patience pill ...You can be joyous, but you can't be a jackass.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

[...] the only folks who kill black folks any more are black folks. [...] black folks kill more black folks than the KKK ever did.

We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.

There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.

Everyone felt comfortable with these guys and what their vision was, and when they said they want to keep the staff intact, that was very encouraging.

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.

There is deep darkness before the dawn of light.

Hope is a flower which refuses to be crushed under life's brutal heel.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Аfter all the beats and rhymes, I felt like everybody around me was rapping and so I was like.

The reason producers make stupid movies is because there are stupid people who will pay to see them.

Remember, folks, I am a comedian, not a journalist.

If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.

THE ART OF PEACE is the religion that is not a religion; it perfects and completes all religions.