The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
BARNEY FRANKAnd I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
More Barney Frank Quotes
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We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.
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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 fact that theyre a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that its National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.
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The public is ready now for a safety net for the middle class, something not just for the poor, but for everyone who will need help, from time to time, in order to own a home, educate their kids, keep themselves healthy or have something to retire on.
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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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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.
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I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.
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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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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.
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The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they’ve done the terrible things.
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I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.
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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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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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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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