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.
BARNEY FRANKI smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.
More Barney Frank Quotes
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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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It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
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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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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 have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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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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I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.
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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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We don’t get ourselves dry cleaned.
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[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.
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Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
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The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left’s on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
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But here too it should be noted that the President’s approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
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It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
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