You showed your credentials by being able to talk about all this detail, but a lot of people - including Democrats - got sucked into it. They learned the lingo, but they forgot it had no relation to reality. It was like critics of 'The Three Stooges' debating the right way to squirt seltzer up your nose. They forgot that the whole thing was a little silly. - Barney Frank Quotes
You showed your credentials by being able to talk about all this detail, but a lot of people - including Democrats - got sucked into it. They learned the lingo, but they forgot it had no relation to reality. It was like critics of 'The Three Stooges' debating the right way to squirt seltzer up your nose. They forgot that the whole thing was a little silly. Barney Frank
 

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This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. - Barney Frank Quotes

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

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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, - Barney Frank Quotes

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,

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This application is clearly of sufficient importance to require that it be made by the members of the FDIC Board itself and only by a full Board without vacancies. - Barney Frank Quotes

This application is clearly of sufficient importance to require that it be made by the members of the FDIC Board itself and only by a full Board without vacancies.

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My reading is that there was concern in the financial community that with the absence of Greenspan, we crazy politicians will no longer respect the independence of the Fed. Bush's going there today, quite sensibly, was an indication that the president intends to continue to defer to the Fed on monetary policy. - Barney Frank Quotes

My reading is that there was concern in the financial community that with the absence of Greenspan, we crazy politicians will no longer respect the independence of the Fed. Bush's going there today, quite sensibly, was an indication that the president intends to continue to defer to the Fed on monetary policy.

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Are we not trying to promote the notion of people living together? ... What religious group taking federal money says, 'You know what, I want to help these poor people, but not with a Jew,' (or) 'I cannot have a Baptist working for me,' (or) 'no Mormon need apply?' - Barney Frank Quotes

Are we not trying to promote the notion of people living together? ... What religious group taking federal money says, 'You know what, I want to help these poor people, but not with a Jew,' (or) 'I cannot have a Baptist working for me,' (or) 'no Mormon need apply?'

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The losers, if we do not re-enact terrorism risk insurance, are people who want to build in those cities seen as potential targets of terrorism. They would not be able to get loans. - Barney Frank Quotes

The losers, if we do not re-enact terrorism risk insurance, are people who want to build in those cities seen as potential targets of terrorism. They would not be able to get loans.

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He couldn't stop taking blame. He was a basket case and couldn't keep it together. - Barney Frank Quotes

He couldn't stop taking blame. He was a basket case and couldn't keep it together.

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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, - Barney Frank Quotes

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,

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[The hurricane] reinforces the reason to have such a fund, ... Some people said, 'Well, it's going to be abused.' Well, let's see how it works in Louisiana. - Barney Frank Quotes

[The hurricane] reinforces the reason to have such a fund, ... Some people said, 'Well, it's going to be abused.' Well, let's see how it works in Louisiana.

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The time has come to undo some of those tax breaks, - Barney Frank Quotes

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

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