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The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet. - Barney Frank
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence. - Barney Frank
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But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying. - Barney Frank
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Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out. - Barney Frank
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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. - Barney Frank
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I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment. - Barney Frank
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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. - Barney Frank
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I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed. - Barney Frank
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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. - Barney Frank
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship. - Barney Frank
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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. - Barney Frank
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What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process. - Barney Frank
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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. - Barney Frank
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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. - Barney Frank
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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. - Barney Frank
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They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore. - Barney Frank
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I'm antisocial - there's no question about it. - Barney Frank
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Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion. - Barney Frank
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I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal. - Barney Frank
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. - Barney Frank
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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. - Barney Frank
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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. - Barney Frank
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