It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
BARNEY FRANKThe issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it’s that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
More Barney Frank Quotes
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There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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Ronald Reagan got a lot of democrats. I wish he hadn`t. I got to Congress with Reagan coming to the Whitehouse. The Reagan Program, a very radical one, a very drastic one passed because he had a lot of democrats. He worked at it personally and also because Reagan retained a popularity.
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For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
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I think there were two criticisms you can make of Donald Trump’s involvement in the Health Care Bill. First of all, there were times when he wasn’t being helpful. Secondly, there were times when he was trying to be helpful. I’m not sure which one did more damage.
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There were a lot of Romneys. There’s the Romney who was going to be better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy; now there’s a Romney who checks with Rick Santorum on that issue.
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There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.
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Disruption never helps your cause. … It just looks like you’re afraid to have rational discussion.
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For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.
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But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects – that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. – some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.
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There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.
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Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight
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