Political Quotes

On the recordNovember 17, 2011
We should neither encourage it nor discourage it. And not making something illegal is not an encouragement of it or an endorsement of it.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Frank argues against government interference in private sector activities.

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Why has FSOC undertaken a thoughtful analysis of one category of nonbank companies, but not another?

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I know people in my district who have gone to jail for writing bad checks for $1,000 and yet these people are still walking around.

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Jul 21, 2015

I do think there is a tendency for an overreach by the FSOC. I do not think straightforward insurance companies or money managers should be covered and regulated as SIFIs.

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That makes no sense; for them not to be able to make that fact clear makes no sense to me.

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