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Barney Frank90 quotes“Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.”
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I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
Barney FrankBarney Frank 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.
Barney FrankBarney Frank 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.
Barney FrankBarney Frank Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there’s no hierarchy.
Barney FrankBarney Frank In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
Barney FrankBarney Frank 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.
Barney FrankBarney Frank I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.
Barney FrankBarney Frank I am not aware of any specific provision that mandates any tightening of lending to small business other than a requirement that people who lend and then sell that loan be prepared to take a part of the risk. And I’m proud of that.
Barney FrankBarney Frank 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 FrankBarney Frank 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.
Barney FrankBarney Frank Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
Barney FrankBarney Frank Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
Barney FrankBarney Frank 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 FrankBarney Frank 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.
Barney FrankBarney Frank Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.
Barney FrankBarney Frank But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don’t say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don’t like about what Republicans are saying.
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Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
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Pierre Teilhard de ChardinPierre Teilhard de Chardin Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
Al FrankenAl Franken The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic only Nana could make it happen.
Ai YazawaAi Yazawa Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it’s caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But, because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself.
Maurice Merleau PontyMaurice Merleau Ponty The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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