Political Quotes

Barney Frank

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Nov 17, 2011

The current regime is one of the most intrusive regulations on the banking industry that you can find.

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Nov 17, 2011

Let's define what this is. This is allowing adult Americans to spend their own money as they wish in a form of recreation that they enjoy.

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Nov 17, 2011

If we don't want to tell an 8-year-old what to eat for lunch, why are we telling the 8-year-old's parent, a 28-year-old, no, you can't gamble, we don't think that is appropriate?

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Nov 2, 2011

I think you have done what we all can try to do and it is hard to do.

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Nov 1, 2011

This is the second oversight hearing we have had this week to denounce the lack of oversight, because there was a field hearing.

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Nov 1, 2011

I said before I thought it was interesting that we were having an oversight hearing to in part denounce the lack of oversight, and I misspoke.

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Nov 1, 2011

It should have been on Halloween, because we have conjured up a series of spooks, and ghosts, and goblins, and nonexistent creatures.

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Oct 5, 2011

The swipe fee thing was a present to America from the United States Senate.

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Oct 5, 2011

I think some of those things had as much relationship to the real economy as fantasy football does to what happens on Sunday afternoon.

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Oct 5, 2011

There was no right to make a profit if there is mistreatment of the customers.

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Oct 5, 2011

I think you misrepresented it very substantially.

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