Barney Frank Quotes

It's sad that we vote for and elect officials to run our state, run our country, over social issues. I don't believe they belong in politics.

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

The government is already into our lives a whole lot more than they should be. If I were president, I'd roll everything back. Everything!

We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

All participants in politics want to impose as much of their morality on others as possible.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government shall do everything and the idea that government shall do nothing.

The role of government is, I believe, the most potent but underappreciated cultural issue in American politics.

Congress, rather than administrative agencies should fashion any policy that is not only of great economic importance but also one that has divided the faiths and loyalties of classes of people.

Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business.

I object to Parliament trying to regulate private morality in matters which only affects the person who commits the offence.

No matter what the issue is, conservative principles are always better for people than big-government, liberal principles.

I was always interested in politics.

The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me.

I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.

We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every - basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition.