Take your patience pill ...You can be joyous, but you can't be a jackass.

[...] the only folks who kill black folks any more are black folks. [...] black folks kill more black folks than the KKK ever did.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.

Everyone felt comfortable with these guys and what their vision was, and when they said they want to keep the staff intact, that was very encouraging.

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy!