Donald Trump has done more for getting people to understand the importance of public policy that respond to public needs in an affirmative way than anything we could have done on our own.
BARNEY FRANKThe best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
More Barney Frank Quotes
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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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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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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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I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
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Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
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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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I will tell you, I’m a lousy cook, but I think I’m a pretty good judge of a good meal.
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[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.
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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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Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.
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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.
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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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I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.
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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.
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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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