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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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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.
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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.
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A leader can`t move a country that`s not ready. You can`t make the waves, but when you see them coming, you can help direct them.
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There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any difference,” Frank said. “It’s the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. … The bumper sticker I’m going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, ‘We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.’
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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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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Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
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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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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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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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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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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
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I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?
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We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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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 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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