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Barney Frank Quote: “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.”

51. “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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Barney Frank Quote: “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.”

52. “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.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.”

53. “The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.”

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

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Barney Frank Quote: “Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there’s no hierarchy.”

55. “Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there’s no hierarchy.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “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.”

56. “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.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “I should have voted for the first Iraq war. George Bush did that one very well. I had been skeptical. I was afraid that George Bush was going to treat the first Iraq war the way his son treated the second.”

57. “I should have voted for the first Iraq war. George Bush did that one very well. I had been skeptical. I was afraid that George Bush was going to treat the first Iraq war the way his son treated the second.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.”

58. “In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.”

59. “When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.”

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

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Barney Frank Quote: “Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.”

61. “Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “Southern racists were able to protect murderers only because their legislators exploited fears of centralized power.”

62. “Southern racists were able to protect murderers only because their legislators exploited fears of centralized power.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “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.”

63. “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.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “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.”

65. “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.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.”

66. “I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “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.”

67. “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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Barney Frank Quote: “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.”

68. “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.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.”

69. “While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn’t have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.”

70. “Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn’t have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “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.”

71. “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.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.”

72. “Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.”

73. “For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “They can vote for every possible war that comes along and still be “pro-life,” while a levy that applies only to the vast fortunes left by the richest 1 percent of Americans when a spousal exemption is claimed is the “death tax.”

74. “They can vote for every possible war that comes along and still be “pro-life,” while a levy that applies only to the vast fortunes left by the richest 1 percent of Americans when a spousal exemption is claimed is the “death tax.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “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.”

75. “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.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.”

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

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Barney Frank Quote: “And unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.”

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

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Barney Frank Quote: “The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.”

78. “The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.”

79. “Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.”

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Barney Frank Quote: “Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.”

80. “Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.”

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