List of Barney Frank Quotes

I Am Not Aware Of Any Specific Provision That Mandates Any Tightening Of Lending To Small Business Other Than A Requirement That People Who Lend And Then Sell That Loan Be Prepared To Take A Part Of The Risk. And I'm Proud Of That.

We Were Giving Advice For The Single-worst Idea To Come Forward From A Group That's Been Rife With Them, It Would Be This: The Idea Is This: Let's Make The Tax Code Of America Better For Very Rich People; Let's Give Substantial Tax Relief To The Richest People We Can Find. Forget About The Person Making $40,000 A Year And Paying Social Security Payroll Tax. Forget About All Those Other People Paying Income Tax; We're Here To Give Tax Relief To The Richest 2% Of America.

Excessive Partisanship Is The Problem. There Has Never Been A Democracy In The History Of The World In A Polity Of Any Size Where You Didn't Have Political Parties. Even Sometimes Over The Objections Of The People Who Started It.

Nato Was A Wonderful Idea. It Was Formed In 1949. We Are As Far Away From Nato As Nato Was When It Was Done In Time From The Presidency Of Grover Cleveland.

There Was A Degree Of Interventionism In American Foreign Policy, The Notion That We Must Be The Superpower And We Have To Intervene Everywhere, That I Think Makes No Sense.

A Leader Can`t Move A Country That`s Not Ready. You Can`t Make The Waves, But When You See Them Coming, You Can Help Direct Them.

Going Before An Audience Of People Who Expect You To Be Funny Is Tough. Going Before An Audience That Expect You To Be Boring, And Then Being A Little Funny, Is Much Easier. I Prefer Easier.

Trying To Avert Foreclosures, Once You Can't Just Force The Banks To Do It As A Condition Of Getting Aid, Means That You Have To Put Some Public Money Into It Or You Have To Do Other Things That Are Politically Unpopular. From The Macroeconomic Standpoint There Is Overwhelming Need To Help People Reduce What They Owe So That We Don't Get The Foreclosures And We Don't Get People Kicked Out Of Their Homes. On The Other Hand, There Is Great Resistance Politically To Helping People, Not All Of Whom Would Be Worth Recipients Of The Help.

In The West Everybody Recognizes The Need For A Private Sector, Pretty Much, Even The One Socialist Group Understands This Now, And So There Tends To Be Debate About How Much Public Sector Intervention You Think Is Needed For A Variety Of Reasons, And There Are Very Important Differences On Party Lines That Should Be Fought Out.

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.

I Don't Think Donald Trump Is The Right Person Because I Very Much Disagree With Him.

Ronald Reagan Got A Lot Of Democrats. I Wish He Hadn`t. I Got To Congress With Reagan Coming To The Whitehouse. The Reagan Program, A Very Radical One, A Very Drastic One Passed Because He Had A Lot Of Democrats. He Worked At It Personally And Also Because Reagan Retained A Popularity.