Barney Frank Government Quotations

It was just about the most heartless thing I have ever seen a government do that did not involve absolute loss of life.

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

It is a very bad idea for the United States government to spend tens of billions of dollars to send people to Mars and to the moon,

In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.

[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.

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.

The people who started the American government, the founders of the Constitution, didn't like political parties but they were forced to start them. Nobody ever created political parties in England, they evolved. And there do tend to be two general tendencies that focus around how much government you think you need.

Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.