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The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.

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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And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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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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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
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Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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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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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 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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[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.
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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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For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
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In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.
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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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There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
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I am not aware of any specific provision that mandates any tightening of lending to small business other than a requirement that people who lend and then sell that loan be prepared to take a part of the risk. And I'm proud of that.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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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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The best antidote to prejudice is reality.
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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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