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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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What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
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[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.
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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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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
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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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Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
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The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
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We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
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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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The best antidote to prejudice is reality.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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