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
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.
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.
Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
I hope the regulators understand by now there is, I think, unanimity on this committee that they should experiment, they should be flexible, they should do everything reasonable to get money into people's hands because people need money to eat and to live and because that's the way we're going to bring the economy back,
It is true that the results of the American intervention in Afghanistan will certainly be a far more democratic Afghanistan, and I welcome that.
It was just about the most heartless thing I have ever seen a government do that did not involve absolute loss of life.
It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
It's hard to see how anything could be completed before the election.
not diluting the marriage between a man and a woman.
That seems to many people an insufficient basis for an impeachment.
And it is not our job to be the high court of appeals that overrules what courts do, state courts and federal courts now, in a particular case.
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.
I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.
I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.