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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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Barney Frank
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: March 31
Former U.S. Representative
Politician
Bayonne
New Jersey
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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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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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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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They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.
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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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The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
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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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We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.
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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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Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
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Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
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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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The best antidote to prejudice is reality.
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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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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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Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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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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The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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