167 Quotes by Barney Frank

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.

If the Bush economic program is as successful as they say it is, why do they keep firing everybody who had anything to do with it? ... an extraordinary confession of failure in the economic arena by this administration.

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.

He couldn't stop taking blame. He was a basket case and couldn't keep it together.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

It is a very bad idea for the United States government to spend tens of billions of dollars to send people to Mars and to the moon,