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 FRANKAnd unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.
More Barney Frank Quotes
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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.
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I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.
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Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it’s expensive to boot.
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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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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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Disruption never helps your cause. … It just looks like you’re afraid to have rational discussion.
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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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There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
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Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.
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I can tell you about health care and also about the financial reform bill. The Barack Obama, the President personally and his administration officials at his direction were very much involved.
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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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