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"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate."
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"The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous."
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"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."
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"We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others."
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"A murderer is a killer without a uniform."
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"A killer is someone who killed another without their country's permission."
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"I was having a field day down the Westend; my deep pockets were jingling and full of money nearly every day of the week. My brother's bird, Irene, wanted a fur coat, so I got her one by throwing a brick through the shop window and grabbing the coat off the shop dummy. Once I got to the bed-sit, I put the jacket on and waltzed in to the flat looking like Liberace, the two of them burst out laughing. Irene was like a tramp eating chips. 'Let's try it on, Jimmy, please?' As she swooned around like Joan Collins with the fur coat on, she had the air of a council estate beauty queen about her."
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"Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!"
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"All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene."
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"In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it."
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"Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime."
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"First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl."
Nightlife
"People have criticised me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are."
People
"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate."
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"The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice."
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"The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist."
Power
"I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican."
Fun
"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk."
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"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?"
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"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."
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"I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?"
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