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.
BARNEY FRANKDisruption never helps your cause. … It just looks like you’re afraid to have rational discussion.
More Barney Frank Quotes
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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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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The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left’s on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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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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I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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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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And unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.
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The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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What’s troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
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Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.
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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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There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.
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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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