Disruption never helps your cause. … It just looks like you’re afraid to have rational discussion.
BARNEY FRANKThere is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
More Barney Frank Quotes
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There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any difference,” Frank said. “It’s the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. … The bumper sticker I’m going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, ‘We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.’
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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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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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For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
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The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
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Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots.
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Donald Trump has done more for getting people to understand the importance of public policy that respond to public needs in an affirmative way than anything we could have done on our own.
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I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed – for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late ’50s, early ’60s – that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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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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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?
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I think there were two criticisms you can make of Donald Trump’s involvement in the Health Care Bill. First of all, there were times when he wasn’t being helpful. Secondly, there were times when he was trying to be helpful. I’m not sure which one did more damage.
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There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
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