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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.

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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The best antidote to prejudice is reality.
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Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
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I have this fear that one day there's going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 senators there and they’ll all die because they won't have 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.
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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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Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.
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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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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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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
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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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