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

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.

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control] legislation.

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!?!

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.

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