Barney Frank Quotes

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

I need them as much as they need me.

Great partnerships thrive because the people need each other.

At the end of the day, when you get a sponsor, it's a working relationship. So anyone I get involved with, I want it to be a working relationship where I'm generally trying to help them and they're generally trying to help me.

Integration is a give and take.

When anyone in Washington asks for a favor, no matter how little the favor means to you, act pained and get as much as you can in exchange - even if the person asking is the president of the United States.

I never wanted something from somebody without being able to kind of reciprocate, I guess.

A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.

Friendship is a give and take. You have to have a strong relationship with your friend and I think you have to offer them something and they have to offer you something and that’s to always learn from it.

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

It was a mutual relationship.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

When I'm weak, you can be strong; when I'm strong, you can be weak. That's what I believe marriage is.

If your support the community, they will support you.

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.