Barney Frank

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

— Barney Frank

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

— Barney Frank

I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.

— Barney Frank

The best humor is offered up by the stupidity of your opponents.

— Barney Frank

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

— Barney Frank

The regulation of medicine has been a State function.

— Barney Frank

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

— Barney Frank

I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.

— Barney Frank

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

— Barney Frank

Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give…

— Barney Frank

I don't think Donald Trump is the right person because I very much disagree with him.

— Barney Frank

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

— Barney Frank

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

— Barney Frank

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

— Barney Frank

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

— Barney Frank

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour…

— Barney Frank

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in…

— Barney Frank

I think there were two criticisms you can make of Donald Trump's involvement in the Health Care Bill. First of all, there…

— Barney Frank

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social…

— Barney Frank

When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had…

— Barney Frank

The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that…

— Barney Frank

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender…

— Barney Frank

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them…

— Barney Frank

The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at…

— Barney Frank

In the West everybody recognizes the need for a private sector, pretty much, even the one Socialist group understands this now, and…

— Barney Frank

I do have things I would like to see adopted on behalf of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people: they include the…

— Barney Frank

Alec Baldwin has done this great Donald Trump. I wish somebody would hire Leslie Jordan to play Jeff Sessions. The only way…

— Barney Frank

Particularly marijuana, I think is a great hypocrisy. I think frankly it contributes to a good deal of the sense of unfairness…

— Barney Frank

Ronald Reagan got a lot of democrats. I wish he hadn't. I got to Congress with Reagan coming to the Whitehouse. The…

— Barney Frank

You know, when I was in college, there was a big debate: Do unions raise wages? Well, with regard to industrial unions,…

— Barney Frank

The most active people in the country know different things, and because each one tends to hear mostly and deal mostly with…

— Barney Frank

We were giving advice for the single-worst idea to come forward from a group that's been rife with them, it would be…

— Barney Frank

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

— Barney Frank

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

— Barney Frank

The best antidote to prejudice is reality.

— Barney Frank

We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.

— Barney Frank

These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis,

— Barney Frank

I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.

— Barney Frank

Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

— Barney Frank

Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

— Barney Frank