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.
BARNEY FRANKMartin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
More Barney Frank Quotes
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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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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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There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.
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I’m used to being in the minority. I’m a left-handed, gay Jew. I’ve never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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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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These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.
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They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won’t be able to be outraged anymore.
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This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it’s expensive to boot.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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I have this fear that one day there’s going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 senators there and they’ll all die because they won’t have 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.
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Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
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These two entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.
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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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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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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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