167 Quotes by Barney Frank

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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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    Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.

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    Disruption never helps your cause. It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion.

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    I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed, gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

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    The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they've done the terrible things.

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    There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.

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    I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.

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