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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.
People have criticised 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.
The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.
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.
My greatest work comes in the community.
What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?
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.
The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.
I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.
The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.
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.
I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?
