Lisa Samson Quotes

“I've never heard anyone come back from downtown Baltimore waxing poetic about the authenticity of poverty.”

“White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own.”

“There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.”

“My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.”

“The attitude in Baltimore in 1999 was almost one of resignation, that our problems were bigger than our capacity to handle them.”

“I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.”

“Isobel had entrusted the note to Gwen just before Baltimore. And the small scrap of paper still remained her only tangible evidence that Varen had loved her.Expect...he didn't anymore.”

“No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.”

“People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.”

“I took on pension reform, health care reform, and leave reform - all of those tough issues that so many elected officials prefer to kick down the road to the next generation. But that's not who I am. I am not persuaded by what is politically popular but what is best for the citizens of Baltimore.”