We don’t get ourselves dry cleaned.
BARNEY FRANKThese two entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.
More Barney Frank Quotes
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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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Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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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.
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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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The 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.
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Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
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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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Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
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We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.
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They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who’s getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn’t know how to promote homosexuality.
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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.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
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[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.
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Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.
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