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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
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Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
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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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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed - for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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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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Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.
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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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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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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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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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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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We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.
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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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But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
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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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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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