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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
Barnett Frank
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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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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
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We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.
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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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Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight
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Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
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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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The best antidote to prejudice is reality.
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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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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 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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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
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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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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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The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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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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It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
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I have this fear that one day there's going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 senators there and they’ll all die because they won't have 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.
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