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Barney Frank Quotes
And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians. - Barney Frank Quotes
And it is not our job to be the high court of appeals that overrules what courts do, state courts and federal courts now, in a particular case. - Barney Frank Quotes
Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them. - Barney Frank Quotes
But here too it should be noted that the Presidents 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. - Barney Frank Quotes
But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency. - Barney Frank Quotes
But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I dont say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I dont like about what Republicans are saying. - Barney Frank Quotes
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. - Barney Frank Quotes
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. - Barney Frank Quotes
Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically. - Barney Frank Quotes
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. - Barney Frank Quotes
I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed. - Barney Frank Quotes
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. - Barney Frank Quotes
I would say this: What Im basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here. - Barney Frank Quotes
Im used to being in the minority. Im a left-handed gay Jew. Ive never felt, automatically, a member of any majority. - Barney Frank Quotes
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 dont hold it back for retaliatory purposes. - Barney Frank Quotes
In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists. - Barney Frank Quotes
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. - Barney Frank Quotes
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. - Barney Frank Quotes
It is true that the results of the American intervention in Afghanistan will certainly be a far more democratic Afghanistan, and I welcome that. - Barney Frank Quotes
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. - Barney Frank Quotes
It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people. - Barney Frank Quotes
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. - Barney Frank Quotes
Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship. - Barney Frank Quotes
Now, most of the time Im going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans. - Barney Frank Quotes
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence. - Barney Frank Quotes
The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life. - Barney Frank Quotes
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. - Barney Frank Quotes
The regulation of medicine has been a State function. - Barney Frank Quotes
Theres a lot to be said for not displacing people. - Barney Frank Quotes
This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and its expensive to boot. - Barney Frank Quotes
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