“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.”

— Marion Barry

Explaining why he was upset at being robbed at gunpoint, as quoted in the Washington Express (4 January 2006), p. 11
2000s

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American politician and former mayor of Washington, D.C. 1936–2014

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