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

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.

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.

Colorful characters are the odd shaped pieces that fill the holes in life's puzzle.

We were awfully poor. But we had a lot of things that money can't buy . . . like unpaid bills.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

Winning a championship is now a legitimate and realistic goal.

Despite whoever created it, it's my world, & the only one I've got. Might as well make the best of it, right? Might as well have a little fun while I'm here. Or a lot of fun. Might be dead tomorrow.

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us.

Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.