Quotes from our favorite crack smoking mayor:

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

    "I promise you a police car on every sidewalk."
    - M. Barry,  Mayor of Washington, DC

    "If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a
  very very low crime rate."
    - M. Barry,  Mayor of Washington, DC

    "First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club.
  And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl."
    - M. Barry,  Mayor of Washington,DC

    "Bitch set me up."
    - M. Barry,  Mayor of Washington, DC

    "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."
    - M. Barry,  Mayor of Washington, DC

    "The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are
  racist. The law of gravity is racist."
    - M. Barry,  Mayor of Washington, DC

    "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?"
    - M. Barry,  Mayor of Washington, DC

    "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."
    - M. Barry,  Mayor of Washington, DC

    "The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100%
  of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice."
    - M. Barry,  Mayor of Washington, DC

    "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."
    - M. Barry,  Mayor of Washington, DC

    "What right does Congress have to go around making
  laws just because they deem it necessary?"
    - M. Barry,  Mayor of Washington, DC

    "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!?!"
    - M. Barry,  Mayor of Washington, DC


    "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."
    - M. Barry,  Mayor of Washington, DC