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Barney Frank Quotes

The regulation of medicine has been a State function.

– Barney Frank

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.

– 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

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.

– Barney Frank

I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.

– Barney Frank

And unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.

– Barney Frank

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects – that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. – some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

– Barney Frank

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.

– Barney Frank

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

– 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

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.

– Barney Frank

I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

– Barney Frank

I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of – well, 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.

– Barney Frank

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.

– 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

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don’t want to study the social sciences, because it’s not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.

– Barney Frank

Now, most of the time I’m going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

– Barney Frank

For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

– Barney Frank

What’s troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

– Barney Frank

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

– Barney Frank

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

– Barney Frank

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.

– Barney Frank

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