Barney Frank

Quotes

• “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.”
• “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.”
• “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 knots.”
• “The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.”
• “… [they] believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth…”
• “In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.”

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