Barney Frank

Person · Open Library

Born

1940

Works

7

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1915-12-12

Active to

1998-05-14

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

15

Total plays

34

Barnett "Barney" Frank (born March 31, 1940) is the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 4th congressional district, serving since January 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee (2007–2011) and is considered the most prominent gay politician in the United States. Born and raised in Bayonne, NJ, Frank graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He worked as a political aide before winning election to the Massachus

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage

   · 1991 · cited 36,366x

2. The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

   · 2012 · cited 29,226x

3. Intermolecular interactions from a natural bond orbital, donor-acceptor viewpoint

   · 1988 · cited 16,708x

4. Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes

   · 2002 · cited 16,052x

5. The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis

   · 1988 · cited 15,809x

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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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