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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 - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - I am not aware of any specific provision that mandates any tightening of lending to small business other than a requirement that people who lend and then sell that loan be prepared to take a part of the risk. And I’m proud of that. Download This Image

    I am not aware of any specific provision that mandates any tightening of lending to small business other than a requirement that people who lend and then sell that loan be prepared to take a part of the risk. And I’m proud of that.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing. Download This Image

    There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - In a free society, a large degree of human activity is none of the government’s business. We should make criminal what’s going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices. Download This Image

    In a free society, a large degree of human activity is none of the government’s business. We should make criminal what’s going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms. Download This Image

    In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any difference,” Frank said. “It’s the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. … The bumper sticker I’m going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, ‘We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.’ Download This Image

    There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any difference,” Frank said. “It’s the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. … The bumper sticker I’m going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, ‘We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.’

    BARNEY FRANK
  • 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 - A leader can`t move a country that`s not ready. You can`t make the waves, but when you see them coming, you can help direct them. Download This Image

    A leader can`t move a country that`s not ready. You can`t make the waves, but when you see them coming, you can help direct them.

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

    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.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress. Download This Image

    For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - Going before an audience of people who expect you to be funny is tough. Going before an audience that expect you to be boring, and then being a little funny, is much easier. I prefer easier. Download This Image

    Going before an audience of people who expect you to be funny is tough. Going before an audience that expect you to be boring, and then being a little funny, is much easier. I prefer easier.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight Download This Image

    Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

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

    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.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians. Download This Image

    And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental. Download This Image

    I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - I wouldn’t want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court. Download This Image

    I wouldn’t want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court.

    BARNEY FRANK