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Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

I would never tell the president of the United States not to come to my district.

I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.

You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

I never considered the move to Washington to be a permanent move.

Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of the term, should be directed against an individual, a people, or a nation as such.

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

You can't run this nation like a town meeting.