Barney Frank Quotes

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
Barney Frank

Power, Decision, Decisions

The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.
Barney Frank

Give, Fact, Group

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

Become, Able, Won

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

Words, Same, Seems

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
Barney Frank

Country, Problem, Decisions

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
Barney Frank

Fight, Political, Problem

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

True, America, Said

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
Barney Frank

Give, Opinions, Facts

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank

Innocence, Entitled

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

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

Serious, Chance, Listen

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
Barney Frank

Experience, Learning, Help

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
Barney Frank

Government, After, Here

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
Barney Frank

Public, Left, Healthy

But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.
Barney Frank

Saying, Attention, Pay

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
Barney Frank

Money, Others, Poor

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

Action, Community, Level

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
Barney Frank

Poor, Sense, Welfare

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

Life, Stress, Deal

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
Barney Frank

Faith, Great, Strong

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

Home, Big, Ownership

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
Barney Frank

Work, Religion, Hope

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
Barney Frank

Children, Deep, May

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

Good, Judge, Pretty

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

Gay, Used, Felt

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Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: March 31, 1940

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