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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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We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.
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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
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What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
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Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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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.
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They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn't know how to promote homosexuality.
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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.
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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.
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I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.
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