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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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The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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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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What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
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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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Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.
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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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There were a lot of Romneys. There's the Romney who was going to be better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy now there's a Romney who checks with Rick Santorum on that issue.
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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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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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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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These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.
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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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The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
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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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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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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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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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