Barney Frank Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

“Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.”

“Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.”

“Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.”

“When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.”

“Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.”