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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

Barney Frank

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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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[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.
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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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I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.
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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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The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
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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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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 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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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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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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Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight
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It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
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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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I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?
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Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.
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The best antidote to prejudice is reality.
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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 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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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
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These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.
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