Barney Frank Quotes

You do not compromise with the right wing of the Republican party.

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

In New York, the opposite of a Democrat is not a Republican; it’s a Fascist.

I honestly don't see how anyone can view the GOP and the Right as anything but evil.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

The left hand of the right wing.

There are voices in the Republican Party today who preach pragmatism, who champion conciliation, who counsel compromise. I stand here today to reject those deceptions.

I do not believe that our place is at the comfortable mid-point between the extremes of left and right.

There is a segment of the right that doesn't care about winning, what I call zealotry masquerading as principle.

Left-wing confusion spawns right-wing reaction.

A liberal is a conservative who's been indicted.

The liberals of both the Democratic and Republican Parties are the instruments of Satan to destroy the former great principles of these two political parties.

I was raised a Republican but I don’t recognize a once proud party that has been hijacked by extremists who are driving it off the flat earth that they pretend we are living on.

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted — in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest — at the command — of his head.

People at the political extremes have an advantage over the rest of us. Only they seem to know exactly who and what is wrong with America and precisely what policies and programs should be adopted to fix it.

Always, with any sort of politics, which is why we haven't got any, you get extremists, and once you get extremists, you get people doing great things and terrible things... for every following of some sort, you get followers who distort things.

I don't view myself as marching to any right-wing drummer.

Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.

You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.

In the Republican party, crazy is a constituency.

Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.

Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists.