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Barney Frank
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: March 31
Former U.S. Representative
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Bayonne
New Jersey
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The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
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The people who started the American government, the founders of the Constitution, didn't like political parties but they were forced to start them. Nobody ever created political parties in England, they evolved. And there do tend to be two general tendencies that focus around how much government you think you need.
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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.
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Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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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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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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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.
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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.
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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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Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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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.
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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.
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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 best antidote to prejudice is reality.
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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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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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[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.
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Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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