Bob Barr Quotes

You can live an entire lifetime in Chicago and not hear a gunshot, but if you go in a certain neighborhood then you can live your whole lifetime hearing gunshots all the time.

I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just that. People wanna romanticize it and say, 'There's two sides to it, and it's a beautiful love/hate story of violence and music.' But it's really just a very scummy place where people don't have respect for other people's lives.

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.

When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it.

When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

I think that the mother killing the two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we need to change things. The only way you get change is to vote Republican.

In America itself, after 30 years of experimenting with the Great Society programs, there is widespread crime and violence, children kill each other with guns, neighborhoods are insecure, old people feel forgotten, families are falling apart. And the media attacks the integrity and character of your leaders with impunity, drags down all those in authority and blames everyone but itself.

The violence in New Orleans is erupting and it's continuing to grow at an alarming rate.

Living in Rio is dangerous sometimes.

New Orleans is a great place, a place of celebration. But on the other hand, there's a reality to it, there's violence, there's misguided youth.

Chicago is highly segregated, a fact that both causes and compounds the problems we face in bringing an end to violence.

I grew up in a horrible neighborhood.

I don't think anybody feels safe in Chicago. Bullets ain't got no name on them.

[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

Chicago is like a warzone. Chicago is worse than some of the people that you report, in some of the places that you report about every night, in the Middle East.

It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator

The drug war is causing crime. It is just chewing up young, Black men. And it is killing Newark.

The West was extraordinarily violent in the mid-19th century, and it continued to be more homicidal than the rest of the United States until the 1930s.

I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.

Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

New York was scarier than Baltimore ever was. It was terrible in the '70s. I'm glad they cleaned it up. I got mugged; I had to go to the hospital. Every time you went out, you got robbed. It was horrible. You can't imagine.