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When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

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    [Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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 FRANK
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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 FRANK
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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.

    BARNEY FRANK
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    For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.

    BARNEY FRANK
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    Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

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    The best antidote to prejudice is reality.

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    Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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 FRANK
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    There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.

    BARNEY FRANK
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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.

    BARNEY FRANK
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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.

    BARNEY FRANK
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    Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

    BARNEY FRANK
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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.

    BARNEY FRANK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barney Frank Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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 FRANK
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    But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects – that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. – some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

    BARNEY FRANK