Frasi di Barney Frank

Barnett "Barney" Frank è un politico statunitense, membro della Camera dei Rappresentanti per lo Stato del Massachusetts dal 1981 al 2013. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. Marzo 1940
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Barney Frank: Frasi in inglese

“There are a lot of ways to mispronounce my name. That is the least common […] I checked with my mother. In 50 years no one's ever called her "Elsie Fag."”

Responding to Dick Armey's referring to him as "Barney Fag", unidentified publication/date
Quoted in [Solomon, John, 1 November 1998, http://www.sollyonline.com/content.cfm?copy=article&header=portfolio&portfolio=yes&SID=27, "America's Funniest Politicians", George, Solly Online, 2008-03-05]

“The opposite of pragmatism is not idealism. It’s wishful thinking.”

Quoted in [Willies, Egberto, October 11, 2015, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/11/1430614/-Barney-Frank-has-a-message-for-Bernie-Sanders-supporters-they-won-t-like, "Barney Frank has a message for Bernie Sanders supporters they won't like", dailykos.com, 2015-10-11]

“There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn't make any difference. It's the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. […] The bumper sticker I'm going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, "We're not perfect, but they're nuts."”

From his keynote speech at the Maine People's Alliance 30th anniversary Rising Tide awards dinner, June 9, 2012, held at Woodford's Congregational Church in Portland.
Quoted in [Koenig, Seth, June 10, 2012, http://bangordailynews.com/2012/06/10/politics/barney-frank-tackles-gay-marriage-defense-spending-in-portland-speech/, "Barney Frank tackles gay marriage, defense spending in Portland speech", Bangor Daily News, 2012-06-11]

“… [they] believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth…”

Speaking of anti-abortion legislators
[Charles P., Pierce, http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2005/10/02/to_be_frank/?page=4, To Be Frank, The Boston Globe, p. 4, October 2, 2005, 2008-03-05]

“The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.”

KUOW.org audio program (7 September 2005) http://www.kuow.org/defaultProgram.asp?ID=9423 (RealAudio)

“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.”

Interview with Claudia Dreifus in September and October 1995, published in Times Magazine (4 February 1996)

“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.”

Frank commenting on legislation to remove federal criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use. CNN Newsroom : Rep. Barney Frank's Marijuana Bill http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/30/cnr.05.html (30 July 2008)]

“I’m surprised to find absence of explicit anti-Semitism this time. Was a page missing?”

In response to a constituent’s angry letter. Quoted in Slate Magazine http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2011/11/barney_frank_retires_why_the_democrats_will_miss_his_voice_.html, November 29, 2011.

“The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.”

Quoted in "The Path to Gay Rights: How Activism and Coming Out Changed Public Opinion" by Jeremiah J. Garretson, chapter 9, pg 229.

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