Quotes by Barney Frank

“This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and its expensive to boot.”

“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,”

“[The hurricane] reinforces the reason to have such a fund, ... Some people said, Well, its going to be abused. Well, lets see how it works in Louisiana.”

“The time has come to undo some of those tax breaks,”

“It is a terrible allocation of scarce resources, ... The time has come to de-emphasize the manned space program.”

“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.”

“I think Gore was over-reacting in some ways to the criticism that Clinton hadnt pushed hard enough.”

“They not only didnt do anything to protect him, theyre not doing anything now to protect people in the future. Its really a disgrace.”

“He was good at what he did,”

“not diluting the marriage between a man and a woman.”

I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who dont want to study the social sciences, because its not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.