First one, courtesy of the Washington Post...

“If there was such a thing as a black Jesus, Marion was that,” said Barbara Morgan, a civic activist who lives east of the Anacostia River and who knew Barry for a half-century. “He was all about doing for people who were downtrodden. He knew what it was to be on the low rung of the totem pole.”

Joseph diGenova, who was U.S. attorney for the District in the late 1980s when Barry’s administration spun out of control, said that no one should forget that Barry “created and left an incompetent bureaucracy with corruption and inefficiency as a hallmark.”

“He destroyed public confidence in the drug war by using cocaine in the middle of a cocaine epidemic,” he said. “The image of the District of Columbia in the United States has never recovered from his stewardship, and it is not a good one.”

“It’s the end of an era possibly, whether for good or for bad,” said Jennifer Rankin, 32, who acknowledged that “crack” and “civil rights” are the two phrases that come to mind when she thinks of Barry. “In his past, he was so influential in so many wonderful ways.

But lately, he seems to represent cronyism and not getting anything done.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/marion-barry-commits-new-gaffe-while-apologizing-to-asians/2012/05/24/gJQASY7nnU_story.html




I'll never forget this. While apologizing to Asians and Filipinos about borderline racist comments he made about them, he referred to Polish people as Polacks. He then had to apologize about his offensive remark made during his apology.

Blessed are the murderous.

Besides the killings, Crime is low in DC.

Never Run Out of Ammo

Guns Don't Kill People. People Kill People

Them or You

The two most important days in your life are the day your were born and and the day you find out why

"You better stop having all those god damn babies!"

When confronted on a talk show with a d.c. welfare mom on having her 25? kid

Joseph diGenova Wrote:
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> He destroyed public confidence in the drug war
> by using cocaine in the middle of a cocaine
> epidemic...

What a load of crap, Joey. There was NEVER any confidence in the idiotic War On Drugs among anyone. It has from the outset been one of the greatest failed undertakings in US history. Why don't you go have lunch with your maniac arch-conservative friends and leave the sane people alone.

Gunlover Wrote:
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> Besides the killings, Crime is low in DC.


Great quote. Source?

Reporter at press conference " Mr. Mayor, when is the road work fixing potholes in the city going to be completed?"

MB: "Not in your lifetime."
"Next Question."

"Bitch set me up."

"Bitch set me up."

"Bitch set me up."

"Bitch set me up."

"Bitch set me up."

Quotes by or about M. Barry Wrote:
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> Great quote. Source?


Marion Barry himself of course.

"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."

"stop crime by not committing crime" He was saying this on the commercial which I swear aired 10 times a day in the 70s

"First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl."

LOL... Wrote:
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> Joseph diGenova Wrote:
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> > He destroyed public confidence in the drug war
> > by using cocaine in the middle of a cocaine
> > epidemic...
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> What a load of crap, Joey. There was NEVER any
> confidence in the idiotic War On Drugs among
> anyone. It has from the outset been one of the
> greatest failed undertakings in US history. Why
> don't you go have lunch with your maniac
> arch-conservative friends and leave the sane
> people alone.

Yeah, the War on Crime is an epic failure too. I mean, after all this time and money spent there are still rapes, robberies, burglaries, domestics, etc. We should just give it up.

Do you realize how stupid you sound when you make your defeatist comments about the War on Drugs? Or are you only lucid enough to make comments before having a rational thought?

"The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather." -- M. Barry

When Marion was told he was late to some meeting or something, he reportedly said, "I'm not late. It don't start 'til I get here!".

I use that line all the time.

Make love to ya?? Mr barrys best line to his to his crack princess before the bitch set me up comment

"kill whitey!"

The law of gravity is racist

Barry went on a talk show several years after his crack cocaine arrest and said the cause of all of his woes was because...
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Because he was a Sex Addict!!!!

What an idiot! And many people still believed every word he said.

Only truly good quote ever heard about him: "Marion Barry Dies".

Barry aside, defenders of the so-called War on Drugs lose automatically. You have to be really dumb to go there.

Not a quote, but a couple interesting anecdotes:

In Praise of Political Corruption: My Dinner with Marion Barry

https://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2014/11/26/in-praise-of-political-corruption-my-dinner-with-marion-barr.html