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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

Barney Frank

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.
BARNEY FRANK

Jobs Numbers Recovery
Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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Believe Birth Government
But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don’t say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don’t like about what Republicans are saying.
BARNEY FRANK

People Say Anything Thinking
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
The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
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Humor Opponents Stupidity
I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
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People Prejudice Religious
Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
BARNEY FRANK

Country Kings Worship
Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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Country Decision Receiving
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
The best antidote to prejudice is reality.
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Antidote Prejudice Reality
The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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Country Stupidity War
What’s troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
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Delay Ethics Republican
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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Country Light Senior
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 had always been interested in politics. I had assumed – for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late ’50s, early ’60s – that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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Gay Reason Two
And unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.
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Jail Serious Thinking
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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Afraid Country People Person Son War
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
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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Gay Hand Left Majority
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.
BARNEY FRANK

Aquarium Community Fighting
And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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Much Politician Thinking Too
For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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Dealing Eaten Life Stress
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.
BARNEY FRANK

Kids School Two
There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.
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Maintaining People Sex
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 FRANK

Home Kids Order
Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
BARNEY FRANK

Lawyer Reputation Sacrifice
It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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People Politician Use

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