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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

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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We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.
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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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The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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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 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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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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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 issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
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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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What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
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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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The people who started the American government, the founders of the Constitution, didn't like political parties but they were forced to start them. Nobody ever created political parties in England, they evolved. And there do tend to be two general tendencies that focus around how much government you think you need.
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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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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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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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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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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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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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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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