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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

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Barney Frank
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: March 31
Former U.S. Representative
Politician
Bayonne
New Jersey
Barnett Frank
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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.
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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.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.
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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.
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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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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
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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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Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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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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Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
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These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.
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The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
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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.
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We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.
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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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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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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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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 have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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