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
In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.
[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.
But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
The people who started the American government, the founders of the Constitution, didn't like political parties but they were forced to start them. Nobody ever created political parties in England, they evolved. And there do tend to be two general tendencies that focus around how much government you think you need.
Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.
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 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.
It was just about the most heartless thing I have ever seen a government do that did not involve absolute loss of life.
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 time has come to undo some of those tax breaks,
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,