Citas de Marion Barry

• Aparte de los asesinatos, Washington tiene uno de los índices de delincuencia más bajos del país.

  Marion Barry

  Funny, Country, Crazy

  Quoted in Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 1989

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

  Marion Barry

  Real, Two, Kind

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• 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.

  Marion Barry

  Christian, Education, Humble

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• Soy claramente más popular que Reagan. Estoy en mi tercer mandato. ¿Dónde está Reagan? Desaparecido después de dos. Derrotado nada menos que por George Bush y Michael Dukakis.

  Marion Barry

  Halloween, Two, Dumb

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

  Marion Barry

  Estúpido, tonto, bobo

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• When you know more, you can do more.

  Marion Barry

  Knows, Can Do

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

  Marion Barry

  Law, Aggravation, Political

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

  Marion Barry

  Dirty, Opening Up, Racism

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• The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

  Marion Barry

  Paz, guerra, sacrificio

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• I had my bad times. But the good news is that every time this has happened I've taken full responsibility for it. I don't try to duck it, I don't try to dodge it, I don't try to bullshit about it. Truth crushed to the ground will rise again. And that's what my life has been about.

  Marion Barry

  Taken, Responsibility, Ducks

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• People have criticized me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are.

  Marion Barry

  People, President, Details

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• 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.

  Marion Barry

  Law, Stories, Slavery

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• There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.

  Marion Barry

  Guy, Code, Underworld

  Washington Express, January 4, 2006.

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• And no offense, but let’s grow our own teachers, let’s grow our own nurses—and so that we don’t have to be scrounging around in our community clinics and other kinds of places—having to hire people from somewhere else.

  Marion Barry

  Teacher, Somewhere Else, Nurse

  "Marion Barry's remarks on Filipino nurses draw criticism" by Jummy Olabanji, wjla.com. April 24, 2012.

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• The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.

  Marion Barry

  Weather, Long, People

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• My greatest work comes in the community.

  Marion Barry

  Comunidad

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• 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!?!

  Marion Barry

  Responsibility, People, Water

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

  Marion Barry

  Strong, Gun, Virginia

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• Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.

  Marion Barry

  Running, Mouths, Politics

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• Mi opinión personal es muy sencilla: Lo que pase en tu dormitorio, es cosa tuya. Si quieres utilizar el matrimonio gay como algo afectuoso, hazlo.

  Marion Barry

  Gay, Simple, Views

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.

  Marion Barry

  Should Have, Done, Back When

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