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Barnett Frank (born March 31, 1940) is a former American politician and board member of the New York-based Signature Bank. He previously served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013. As a member of the Democratic Party, he served as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee (2007–2011) and was a leading co-sponsor of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Act, a sweeping reform of the U.S. financial industry. Frank, a resident of Newton, Massachusetts, is considered the most prominent gay politician in the United States.

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If you care deeply about a cause and you are then engaged on behalf of that cause in an activity that makes you feel very good and very brave and you're really in solidarity with all your friends, and you're enjoying it, you're probably not advancing the cause very much, because you're spending all your time with people you agree with cheering each other on and not engaging.

Cheer, People, Brave, Activity, Friends, Time

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.

Day, Fire, Leave, One Day, Senate, Vote

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.

Children, Thinking, People, Relations, Like

In the West everybody recognizes the need for a private sector, pretty much, even the one Socialist group understands this now, and so there tends to be debate about how much public sector intervention you think is needed for a variety of reasons, and there are very important differences on party lines that should be fought out.

Differences, Group, Party, Thinking, Understands, Variety

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.

Beaten, Kids, Marriages, School, Two

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

Hierarchy, Legislators, Responsibility, Together, Work, Working Together

In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.

Business, Free, Government, Hurt, People, Society

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.

Issues, People, Giving, Reinforce, Give

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

School, Political, Congress, Shot, Having

I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people’s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.

Army, History, Peoples, Rights, Think, Thinking

Disruption never helps your cause. It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion.

Afraid, Cause, Causes, Helping, Helps, Looks

Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.

Believe, Free, Market, People, Ronald, Unicorn

These two entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.

Affordable Housing, Fannie, People, Problems, Terms, Two

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.

Equality Under The Law, Justice, Diversity, General, Theory, Existed

I am not aware of any specific provision that mandates any tightening of lending to small business other than a requirement that people who lend and then sell that loan be prepared to take a part of the risk. And I'm proud of that.

Business, Lend, People, Proud, Risk, Take

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

Politics, Possible, Powerful, Ridicule, Weapons

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

Delay, Ethics, Process, Republican, Troubling, Weakening

There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.

Degrees, Foreign Policy, Intervene, Sense, Think, Thinking

When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate. . . because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.

Crash, Funny Graduation, Gone, Grateful, Swim

Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.

Anywhere, Instantaneously, Mobile, Moving, World

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