I have this fear that one day there's going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 senators there and theyโll all die because they won't have 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.
Barney FrankCapitalism 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 FrankConservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
Barney FrankExcessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.
Barney FrankIn the West everybody recognizes the need for a private sector, pretty much, even the one Socialist group understands this now, and so there tends to be debate about how much public sector intervention you think is needed for a variety of reasons, and there are very important differences on party lines that should be fought out.
Barney Frank