Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight
BARNEY FRANKA 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.
More Barney Frank Quotes
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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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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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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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They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won’t be able to be outraged anymore.
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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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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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What’s troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
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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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These 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.
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I should have voted for the first Iraq war. George Bush did that one very well. I had been skeptical. I was afraid that George Bush was going to treat the first Iraq war the way his son treated the second.
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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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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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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.
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Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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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.
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