I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.
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More Barney Frank Quotes
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The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.
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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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Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
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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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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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I don’t think Donald Trump is the right person because I very much disagree with him.
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I should have voted for the first Iraq war. George Bush did that one very well. I had been skeptical. I was afraid that George Bush was going to treat the first Iraq war the way his son treated the second.
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Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
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The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it’s that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
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Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight
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When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate…because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.
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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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Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.
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