Barney Frank Quotes

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

I say Republicans aren't right all the time. Democrats aren't wrong all the time - now, maybe most of the time, but not all the time.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

The Republican and Democratic parties have accomplished an amazing feat with the red state/blue state paradigm. They've convinced everyone that regardless of how bad they are, the other guy is worse.

It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

Like most Americans, I feel disgusted when we see people make decisions based on party politics rather than a solution that is best for the country.

We don't like to deal with people who are trying to kill the revolution. You need to hire a Republican!

Have we come to the point where the Democratic Party needs a Republican President?

I suppose we could say of Gen. Cameron that he is not Democrat enough to hurt him.

Our two-party system has served us well over the years, but never better than in those times of great challenge when we came together not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans united in a common cause.

The fact is that Democrats cannot stand dissent.

A lot of Democrats like to play the 'If we were Republicans' game. I usually hate it; I don't want to behave like the Republicans do.

The Republican Party is the party of national security. There's hardly a national security wing of the Democratic Party anymore. So if we turn away from it, that'll be a big problem.

Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man represented to liberals and the Democratic Party.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

The most biased people are the Democrats.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want to be in the same city - forget the same stage - with President Obama.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.

But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.