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I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out. ↗

— Anne Frank

#carry #come #i #ideals #must

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions. ↗

— Barney Frank

#affected #better #capitalism #decision #decisions

The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles. ↗

— Barney Frank

#eat #fact #give #group #incline

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. ↗

— Barney Frank

#anymore #appear #attached #become #even

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take. ↗

— Barney Frank

#based #broader #compensation #country #decisions

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them. ↗

— Barney Frank

#before #camps #conservatives #divided #essentially

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade. ↗

— Barney Frank

#approach #ask #bin #brutal #did

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency. ↗

— Barney Frank

#capitalist #clear #efficiency #entirely #healthy

But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying. ↗

— Barney Frank

#anything #attention #democrats #disagree #forfeit

I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental. ↗

— Barney Frank

#been #big #home #home ownership #i