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  • Barney Frank Quote - Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn’t have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it. Download This Image
  • Barney Frank Quote - Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn’t have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.
  • Barney Frank Quote - Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn’t have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.
  • Barney Frank Quote - Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn’t have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.
  • Barney Frank Quote - Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn’t have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.
  • Barney Frank Quote - Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn’t have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.
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Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn’t have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.

    I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - And unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.

    And unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy. Download This Image

    I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - The public is ready now for a safety net for the middle class, something not just for the poor, but for everyone who will need help, from time to time, in order to own a home, educate their kids, keep themselves healthy or have something to retire on. Download This Image

    The public is ready now for a safety net for the middle class, something not just for the poor, but for everyone who will need help, from time to time, in order to own a home, educate their kids, keep themselves healthy or have something to retire on.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I’d hate myself in the morning. Download This Image

    If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I’d hate myself in the morning.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed – for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late ’50s, early ’60s – that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist. Download This Image

    I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed – for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late ’50s, early ’60s – that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - The fact that theyre a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that its National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles. Download This Image

    The fact that theyre a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that its National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them. Download This Image

    Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out. Download This Image

    The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - I’m used to being in the minority. I’m a left-handed, gay Jew. I’ve never felt, automatically, a member of any majority. Download This Image

    I’m used to being in the minority. I’m a left-handed, gay Jew. I’ve never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people’s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform. Download This Image

    I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people’s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people. Download This Image

    It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don’t say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don’t like about what Republicans are saying. Download This Image

    But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don’t say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don’t like about what Republicans are saying.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland. Download This Image

    NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view. Download This Image

    In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.

    BARNEY FRANK