Barney Frank

"There are a lot of ways to mispronounce my name. That is the least common I checked with my mother. In 50 years no one's ever called her "Elsie Fag."

"These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we wil…"

"The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out."

"I've seen anti-Semitism essentially disappear in my adult life as a social and economic factor. There may be some nuts out there, but generally things are fine. I think the same thing will happen with…"

"I’m surprised to find absence of explicit anti-Semitism this time. Was a page missing?"

"I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority."

"In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subpri…"

"… believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth…"