167 Quotes by Barney Frank

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.

I will tell you, I’m a lousy cook, but I think I’m a pretty good judge of a good meal.

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.

And unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.

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.

I have this fear that one day there’s going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 Senators there and they’ll all die because they won’t have the 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.

We don’t get ourselves dry cleaned.

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it’s expensive to boot.

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.