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.
BARNEY FRANKIn 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.
More Barney Frank Quotes
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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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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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Donald Trump has done more for getting people to understand the importance of public policy that respond to public needs in an affirmative way than anything we could have done on our own.
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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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I will tell you, I’m a lousy cook, but I think I’m a pretty good judge of a good meal.
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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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The best antidote to prejudice is reality.
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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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When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate…because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.
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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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And unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.
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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.
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I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.
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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 do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.
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