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 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 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 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.
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.
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,
We are not taking anybody's pay or even setting any limits.
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.
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.