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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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We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.
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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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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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[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.
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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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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 was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.
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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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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 am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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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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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
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I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
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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 do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.
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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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I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?
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Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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