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Barney Frank

I wouldn’t want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court.
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Country Gay People United States
There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.
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Degree Foreign Policy Thinking
It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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People Politician Use
Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
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Lawyer Reputation Sacrifice
There were a lot of Romneys. There’s the Romney who was going to be better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy; now there’s a Romney who checks with Rick Santorum on that issue.
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Better Country Gay Rights
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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Criticism Thinking Trying
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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Children People Thinking
The best antidote to prejudice is reality.
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Antidote Prejudice Reality
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
Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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Believe People Unicorn
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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Littles People Tough
The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
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Humor Opponents Stupidity
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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Kids School Two
In a free society, a large degree of human activity is none of the government’s business. We should make criminal what’s going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.
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Government Hurt People
What’s troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
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Delay Ethics Republican
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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Issues Moral Spheres

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