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.
BARNEY FRANKFor most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
More Barney Frank Quotes
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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.
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The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.
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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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If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don’t hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
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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.
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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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The best antidote to prejudice is reality.
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[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.
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But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
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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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There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
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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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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.
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Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.
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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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