Quotes By Barney Frank

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

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.

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

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

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

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

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.

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.

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.

There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

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.

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.

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.