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Barney Frank

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.
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Decision Etc Poor Subject Sugegst
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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Party War Years
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.
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Believe Excess Views
I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people’s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.
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Army Rights Thinking
It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
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Aquarium Community Fighting
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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Jobs Numbers Recovery
There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.
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Maintaining People Sex
Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there’s no hierarchy.
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Hierarchy Responsibility Together Working
Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
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Congress Political School
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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Done People Rights
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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People Serious Thinking Violation
Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn’t have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.
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Party People Political
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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Gay Rights Writing
The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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Country Stupidity War
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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Giving Groups People
In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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Country Democrats Staggered

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