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A leader can`t move a country that`s not ready. You can`t make the waves, but when you see them coming, you can help direct them.

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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[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.
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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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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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We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.
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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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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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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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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
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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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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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The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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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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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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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
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