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
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 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.
I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.
It is a terrible allocation of scarce resources, ... The time has come to de-emphasize the manned space program.
I think Gore was over-reacting in some ways to the criticism that Clinton hadn't pushed hard enough.
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 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.
People have been scared straight, and between now and Election Day will be one of the purest periods in American life.
I think our military is of sterner stuff than that.
There's only one thing you can do in bankruptcy: break your word, break your deals. It allows you to say to the small businesses, who have been catering lunches for you, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.' It allows you to go to the workers and say, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.'
Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.