My personal view is very simple: What happens in your bedroom, it's up to you. If you want to use gay marriage as an affectionate kind of thing you're doing, do it.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.