Barney Frank

I think the public option will be popular.

We're going to have death panels. But they're going to be death panels that are going to put to death these institutions before they can cause us problems, not old people.

I very much regret that the U.S. Supreme Court has made America the only democracy in the world where we're not allowed to regulate campaign spending.

I do not accept money, I've stopped accepting money once the TARP came. I cut off accepting any money from the banks that were TARP recipients.

Well, I'd like to get them to pay the money back. And the one thing I want to say is this, John. All the money in the world doesn't make them effective lobbyists right now.

Because you don't wait until it's too late.

And at the same time, the money is still drying up at the bottom.

We can't. We are contractually obligated to reward the people that have driven us to the edge of the precipice--$1 million bonuses, at that.

Your kids will be paying for that and they will be saying, 'Hey Dad, why did you guys do that?'

Do you know, they signed that? This is what started us off.

I voted no on it too, Trent, and it is now a part of American history.

. . . despite the importance of NOAA's fisheries mission, it seems fraught with a lack of responsiveness and a management process that is slow to react.

In the first place, Mike Rogers is simply wrong. And I'm disappointed in him.

We were stopping -- that debate got interrupted by the right-wing attacks, not the mainstream conservatives, on the president and the health care plan.

Mike, I don't know why you would make things up. We're trying to have a serious discussion.

You have got to sometimes differentiate yourself from your friends.

It is a tribute to the First Amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated.

I agree with that. I haven't been rude to people, except to the crazies.

I differentiate. I know there are a lot of people who have legitimate concerns. I disagree with them, but they have them.

Well, it's more partisan in the House, less so in the Senate.

On what planet do you spend most of your time?

Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it.

The General Motors parts distribution plant received a 14-month reprieve from GM officials, thanks to U.S.

Every single activity now characterized as a bailout that is going on in the United States was initiated by the Bush Administration.

I never expected, given the subprime meltdown and the number of foreclosures we have, that we would get that kind of opposition.