Barney Frank

I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things. ”

As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something. ”

And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer. ”

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so. ”

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore. ”

I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority. ”

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about. ”

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life. ”

For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress. ”

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children. ”