Quotes by Barney Frank

Barney Frank

American politician

Lived from: 1940 -

Category: Politics

Born: 31 march 1940

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  • It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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  • It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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  • Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
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  • Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
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  • 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.
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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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  • 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)]
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  • 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.
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  • Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.
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  • Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
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  • The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
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  • The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.
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  • The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
    KUOW.org audio program (7 September 2005) (RealAudio)
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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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  • There are a lot of ways to mispronounce my name. That is the least common I checked with my mother. In 50 years no one's ever called her Elsie Fag.
    Responding to Dick Armeys referring to him as Barney Fag, unidentified publication/date
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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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  • Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
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  • Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.
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  • Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
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