Thank you for your attention to this matter!

We’re just going to see what happens. We’re going to have tremendous success with what we’re doing.

We’ll be getting rid of the slums where [criminals] live

I understand a lot of you tend to be on the liberal side, but … you don’t want to get mugged and raped and shot and killed.

You want to be able to leave your apartment or your house where you live and feel safe and go into a store to buy a newspaper or buy something, and you don’t have that now.

I don’t like being up here talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once beautiful capital was with graffiti all over the walls.

has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people.

Every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster.

This is an emergency. This is a tragic emergency, and it’s embarrassing for me to be up here.

You spit, and we hit

Bad politicians started it.

I’m going to have to get the Republicans to vote. Because the Democrats are weak on crime — totally weak on crime.

If D.C. doesn't get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they're not going to get away with it anymore.

The Law in D.C. must be changed to prosecute these 'minors' as adults, and lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14.

Washington, D.C., must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans and, importantly, for the World to see.

Crime in Washington, D.C., is totally out of control. Local 'youths' and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be…

The murder rate in Washington is higher than that of Bogotá, Colombia and Mexico City

I laugh at the Democrats who are now all of a sudden so interested in the Epstein files. For four years, Joe Biden and the Democrats did nothing about this story.