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… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals. — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
I think there were two criticisms you can make of Donald Trump's involvement in the Health Care Bill. First of all, there were times… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has done more for getting people to understand the importance of public policy that respond to public needs in an affirmative way… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
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… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would,… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
The most active people in the country know different things, and because each one tends to hear mostly and deal mostly with people with whom they agree, they are reinforced not simply in the conviction that they are right, which is totally appropriate, but that they are the majority. So you have both sides, the Left and the Right, thinking… — Barney Frank Copy Share
