Marion Barry

Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. (born March 6, 1936) served as Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C. from 1979 to 1991. He was forced to leave office during his third term as a result of his arrest and conviction on drug charges but was later again elected to the D.C. council and ultimately to the mayoralty, serving a fourth term from 1995 to 1999.

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• Goddamn bitch set me up!
  • Barry said this in front of an FBI camera after agents arrested him for smoking crack in a hotel room with an escort. This phrase (and variants) was emblazoned on novelty tee-shirts at the time.

• Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
  • Source: USA Today: Mar 24, 1989. pg. 02.A

• They made all this up to justify questioning me. It's all made up. I don't know what happened. Whatever they say was all made up.
  • Responding to allegations by Park Police that he was found with a white substance under his nose and trace amounts of cocaine in his car.
  • Source: The Washington Post: 26 March 2002. pg B2

• 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.
  • Explaining why he was upset at being robbed at gunpoint.
  • Source: Washington Express: 4 January 2006. pg 11