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I wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Gay
United States
Want
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NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Cleveland
Done
Ideas
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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Power
Affected
Capitalism
Decision
Economic
Makers
Perspective
Share
Decisions
Those
Works
Every
Forced
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Combat
Community
Community Action
Effort
Injustice
Law
Poverty
Social Injustice
Federal
Intellectually
Sixties
Supported
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Country
Light
Senior
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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Contrary
Ignorance
Invincible
Theologian
Binds
Concept
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There were a lot of Romneys. There's the Romney who was going to be better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy; now there's a Romney who checks with Rick Santorum on that issue.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Gay
Issues
Rights
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Attention Span
Distraction
Legislate
Pat
Short Attention Span
Slightest
Span
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Degrees
Foreign Policy
Thinking
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Concerned
Giving
Issues
People
Activists
Opinions
Reinforce
Sources
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Children
Day Care
Party
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Aquariums
Capitalism
Community
Community Action
Fighting
Intellectual
Remains
Aspects
Essential
Therefore
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Giving
Groups
People
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Done
Importance
People
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But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Capitalist
Efficiency
Healthy
Inequality
Maximum
Policy
Produce
Public Policy
Entirely
Socially
Untouched
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The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they've done the terrible things.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Done
People
Rights
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Incline
Month
People Group More
Pickle
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Affected
Granted
Notion
People
Should Have
Today
Carried
Policies
Take For Granted
Whose
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Going before an audience of people who expect you to be funny is tough. Going before an audience that expect you to be boring, and then being a little funny, is much easier. I prefer easier.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Littles
People
Tough
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I can tell you about health care and also about the financial reform bill. The Barack Obama, the President personally and his administration officials at his direction were very much involved.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Care
Financial
President
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Believe
Concentration
Intention
Majority
Media
Ought
Party
Allow
Discussed
Excessive
Subject
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Majority
Significant
Wages
Decisions
Capitalists
Great Majority
Happily
Produced
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For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
College
Expression
President
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Effort
Legislation
Objects
People
Poor People
Reasonable
Welfare
Welfare Programs
People Poor Who
Assist
Efforts
Enact
Historically
Programs
Perfectly
Supported
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I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people’s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Army
Rights
Thinking
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
War
Should Have
Son
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Ethics
Ought
People
Should Have
Thinking
Violation
Committee
Purposes
Sent
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But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Government
Approach
Brutal
Firsts
President
Surrender
Taliban
Bin
Invade
Noted
Refused
Repressive
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Fire
One Day
Vote
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
American Life
Clinton
Code
Increase
Periods
Productive
Progressive
Life People More
Tax
Nearly
Primarily
Tax Code
Tax Increase
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Gay
Reason
Two
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If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I'd hate myself in the morning.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Morning
Fire
Hate
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Biased
Committed
People
Prejudice
Religious
Characterize
Common Cause
Towards
Narrow
Religious People
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I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Authority
Children
Dislike
Misuse
People
Thinking
Adult
Absolute
Physically
Gap
Impose
Relations
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Government
Hurt
People
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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 Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Party
People
Political
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As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Elderly
Orientation
Poor
Poor People
Pragmatic
Realistic
Good I Am People
Accomplishing
Discriminated
Sexual
Liberal
Obligated
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I am not aware of any specific provision that mandates any tightening of lending to small business other than a requirement that people who lend and then sell that loan be prepared to take a part of the risk. And I'm proud of that.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
People
Proud
Risk
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Disagree
Forfeit
Pay Attention
People
Say Anything
Thinking
Me People Anything
Me People Attention
Democrats
Republicans
Strongly
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Affordable Housing
People
Two
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Effects
Fundamentalist
Harvard
Impervious
Indication
Party
Proof
Republican Party
Taken
Yale
Totally
Bush
Cite
Further
George
George Bush
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Activist
Variety
Jewish
Assumed
Elected
Participate
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Kids
Home
Order
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Ambition
Essentials
Radio
Reality
Talk Radio
Essential
Listens
No Sense
Parallel
Reinforce
Universes
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I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Equality
Legal
Bisexual
Block
Clinton
Conviction
Gay
Helping
Impeachment
Prejudice
Transgender
Visible
Bill
Bill Clinton
Lesbian
Rid
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Funny Graduation
Grateful
Swim
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I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Affordable
Affordable Housing
Housing
Poor People
Work Done Me
Opposite
Work Me Bad
Liberals
Loans
Prevent
Push
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Competent
Doctors
Marijuana
Medicine
Practice
Practice Of Medicine
Allow
Basis
Doctor
Let Us
Prescribe
Regulate
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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.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Jobs
Administration
April
Job Creation
Numbers
Recovery
Bush
Bush Administration
Created
Period
Relatively
Pleasantly
Surprised
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I think there were two criticisms you can make of Donald Trump`s involvement in the Health Care Bill. First of all, there were times when he wasn`t being helpful. Secondly, there were times when he was trying to be helpful. I`m not sure which one did more damage.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Criticism
Thinking
Trying
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