Quotes with barney

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  • Barney Frank If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Barney Frank 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.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barney Frank In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barney Frank 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.
    Frank in an op-ed piece A (sub)prime argument for more regulation in W:Financial Times (August 2007)
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barney Frank In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barney Frank 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.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barney Frank 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
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barney Frank It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barney Frank It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barney Ross It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Barney Frank It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barney Frank Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barney Frank Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barney Frank Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney Lovers should also have their days off.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Barney Frank 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
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barney Frank Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.
    Quoted in Dionne, E. J., The Washington Post, (16 November 2004)]
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barney Frank Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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