Baltimore Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Baltimore.
Top Quotes
“United States of America”
“Tommy Carcetti: It's Baltimore; no one lives forever.”
“Wikipedia: Baltimore”
“Wikivoyage: Baltimore”
“Wikiversity: Baltimore”
“Wikicommons: Baltimore”
“Wiktionary: Baltimore”
“I wish I was in Baltimore, I'd make secession traitors roar! Right away, come away! Right away, come away!”
“Ervin Burrell: It's Baltimore, gentlemen. The Gods will not save you.”
“During the nineties, tolerant Baltimore's crime rate, much of it drug-fueled, rocketed upward, 75 percent of the city’s murders were drug-related; tough-on-crime New York's plummeted.”
“Whether it's in Ferguson or Baltimore, the response from senior officials, the president or the attorney general, is to vilify law enforcement. That's wrong. It’s fundamentally wrong. It’s endangering all of our safety and security.”
“Officials raised property taxes 21 times between 1950 and 1985, channeling the proceeds to favored voting blocs and causing many homeowners and entrepreneurs — disproportionately Republicans — to flee. It was brilliant politics, as Democrats now enjoy an eight-to-one voter registration advantage.”
“Toxic government dependence and cronyism and union corruption and failed schools that comes along with it, has run amok in Baltimore for a half-century, and that is Baltimore's problem. It is the free people of Baltimore who elect and then re-elect those who institute policies that have so spectacularly failed that once-great city. It is the free people of Baltimore who elected Mayor 'Space-to-Destroy'.”
“
We are trying to help; we are trying to help reduce the violence in Baltimore city. It is a hard, hard game. Hard game. People get hurt who shouldn't, all the time. Citizens, police, family members, everybody. Okay? Even somebody who may be doing something wrong, that's petty, ends up getting hurt beyond a scope that shouldn't ever happen...
If we didn't care, we wouldn't come out in the street every day.
”
“Every single member of the Baltimore city council is a Democrat... Toxic government dependence and cronyism and union corruption and failed schools that comes along with it, has run amok in Baltimore for a half-century, and that is Baltimore's problem. It is the free people of Baltimore who elect and then re-elect those who institute policies that have so spectacularly failed that once-great city. It is the free people of Baltimore who elected Mayor 'Space-to-Destroy'.”
“The old town will not give you the time of your life; it is not a brazen hussy among cities, blinding you with its xanthous curls, kicking up its legs, inviting you to exquisite deviltries. Not at all. It is, if the truth must come out, a Perfect Lady. But for all its resultant narrowness, its niceness, its air of merely playing at being a city, it has, at bottom, the one quality which, in cities as in women, shames and survives all the rest. And that is the impalpable, indefinable, irresistible quality of charm.”
“
Obama doesn't have the slightest idea how to fix Baltimore. His solutions fall...
Baltimore itself. The city hasn't been 'neglected'. It has been misgoverned into the ground. It is a Great Society city that bought fully into the big-government vision of the 1960s, and the bitter fruit has been corruption, violence, and despair...
The Baltimore police are corrupt, dysfunctional, and unaccountable; because most of the Baltimore government is that way. This is a failure exclusively of Democrats.
”
“
Rioters blame whites. Well, they need to make sure they're specifically blaming the correct whites. Those on the left. Blacks have been herded into these inner city clusters, a new economic plantation and in this fiftieth year of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, well, the unintended, or maybe intended, consequences are deplorable...
This is not about an American failure, it is about a Democrat failure. And ask yourself, who were the ones who developed the concept of urban economic empowerment zone; as opposed to the ones who have produced urban depraved enslavement zones?
”
“Baltimore is a high-tax city, with malice aforethought... Developers need to be lured to the city with subsidies, and the developers, in turn, contribute to politicians to stay in their good graces. This makes for fertile ground for the city’s traditional corruption... Baltimore's preferred driver of growth has been government... Baltimore has the fifth-highest murder rate among cities with a population of 100,000 or more. The schools, predictably, are a disaster, run by and for the teachers unions... The imperative in Baltimore should be to think and act anew. But the Left's takeaway will be that there's an urgent need for more of the same, as Baltimore and places like it continue to rot.”