Barney Frank
Barney Frank
Barnett "Barney" Frankis a former American politician and board member of the New York-based Signature Bank. He previously served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013. As a member of the Democratic Party, he served as chairman of the House Financial Services Committeeand was a leading co-sponsor of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Act, a sweeping reform of the U.S. financial industry. Frank, a resident of Newton, Massachusetts, is considered the most prominent gay...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 March 1940
CityBayonne, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
There is an irony that the most active anti-gay [groups] are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
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,
It is a terrible allocation of scarce resources, ... The time has come to de-emphasize the manned space program.
He couldn't stop taking blame. He was a basket case and couldn't keep it together.
I think our military is of sterner stuff than that.
People have been scared straight, and between now and Election Day will be one of the purest periods in American life.
I think they're making a mistake, not just because it's expensive but because a hotel just isn't a good place to live,
If the Bush economic program is as successful as they say it is, why do they keep firing everybody who had anything to do with it? ... an extraordinary confession of failure in the economic arena by this administration.
We are not taking anybody's pay or even setting any limits.
The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists.
I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.