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.

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

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.

We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go.

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.

There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths.