Barney Frank Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.”

“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.”

“There's only one thing you can do in bankruptcy: break your word, break your deals. It allows you to say to the small businesses, who have been catering lunches for you, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.' It allows you to go to the workers and say, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.'”

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

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

“And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.”

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

“This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.”

“It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.”

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