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I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

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Barney Frank
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: March 31
Former U.S. Representative
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Bayonne
New Jersey
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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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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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These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.
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We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.
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If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
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There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
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We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.
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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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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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Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots.
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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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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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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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I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.
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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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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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I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?
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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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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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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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