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 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 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,
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,
I think Gore was over-reacting in some ways to the criticism that Clinton hadn't pushed hard enough.
People have been scared straight, and between now and Election Day will be one of the purest periods in American life.
It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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.
not diluting the marriage between a man and a woman.
That seems to many people an insufficient basis for an impeachment.
When I spoke to him, the first thing I did was tease him, saying I thought this was a ploy because he wants to run for Congress. It's not anything that's fun to do, sharing with people intimate things about himself, but it's important and unimportant at the same time. It's something important for him to be honest with people, but it doesn't affect how he does his job.
The best humor is offered up by the stupidity of your opponents.
I have this fear that one day there's going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 Senators there and they'll all die because they won't have the 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.
I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.
NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland.