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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress. ↗

— Barney Frank

#congress #i #long-term #member #myself

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. ↗

— Barney Frank

#allow #basis #because #competent #decide

I'm an un-healable positive optimist. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#optimist #positive

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing. ↗

— Barney Frank

#attention span #away #books #could #distraction

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. ↗

— Barney Frank

#american life #clinton #code #economic #increase

Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself. ↗

— Al Franken

#i #i think #itself #think #value

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet. ↗

— Barney Frank

#another #becomes #before #essential #i

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. ↗

— Barney Frank

#boot #crack #damage #does #equivalent

Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration. ↗

— Hans Frank

#camps #concentration #entirely #had #matter

Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out. ↗

— Barney Frank

#carried #formulated #going #granted #heavily