Barney Frank

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

— Barney Frank

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

— Barney Frank

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

— Barney Frank

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

— Barney Frank

It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.

— Barney Frank

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

— Barney Frank

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

— Barney Frank

I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.

— Barney Frank

In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their…

— Barney Frank

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code…

— Barney Frank

If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be…

— Barney Frank

Going before an audience of people who expect you to be funny is tough. Going before an audience that expect you to…

— Barney Frank

Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any…

— Barney Frank

NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it…

— Barney Frank

There were a lot of Romneys. There was the Romney who was ; going to be better on gay rights than Ted…

— Barney Frank

The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question…

— Barney Frank

Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The…

— Barney Frank

One of the striking things and Donald Trump is right, he gets no Democratic votes. It's interesting there were Democrats from states…

— Barney Frank

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the…

— Barney Frank

They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a…

— Barney Frank

Trying to avert foreclosures, once you can't just force the banks to do it as a condition of getting aid, means that…

— Barney Frank

I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that…

— Barney Frank

If you care deeply about a cause and you are then engaged on behalf of that cause in an activity that makes…

— Barney Frank

The people who started the American government, the founders of the Constitution, didn't like political parties but they were forced to start…

— Barney Frank

There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.

— Barney Frank

There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.

— Barney Frank

Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

— Barney Frank

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to…

— Barney Frank

A leader can't move a country that's not ready. You can't make the waves, but when you see them coming, you can…

— Barney Frank

I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.

— Barney Frank

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

— Barney Frank

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

[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.

— Barney Frank

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

— Barney Frank

I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?

— Barney Frank

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

— Barney Frank

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

— Barney Frank

We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.

— Barney Frank

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

— Barney Frank

I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and…

— Barney Frank