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.

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!?!

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.

In the average, want overcomes reason. In the magnificent, reason is the want.

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

Without losers, where would the winners be?

Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm.

The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.

Years were passing through the spaces between moments.

I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things.

When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right

No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.

On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.