Barney Frank

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential. ”

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically. ”

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. ”

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually. ”

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship. ”

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. ”

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. ”

The regulation of medicine has been a State function. ”

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education. ”

I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment. ”