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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

~Barney Frank

Topics: Also Based Broader Compensation Country Decisions Disproportionate Distribution Executives Growing Implications Incentives Income Increasing Inequality Perverse Policy Problem Receiving Result Take Themselves

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It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

~Barney Frank

Topics: Action Against Aspects Because Capitalism Community Essential Fight Intellectual Political Problem Remains Therefore

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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

~Barney Frank

Topics: Me Other Ought People Politicians Same Seems Use Words

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Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

~Barney Frank

Topics: About Allow Basis Because Competent Decide Doctor Let Us Level Medicine National Political Practice Prescribe Regulate Say State Talking Us Will

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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

~Barney Frank

Topics: America Hour King Luther Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Most Sadly Said Segregated Still Times True Worship

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Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

~Barney Frank

Topics: Agree Democrats Disagree Going Most Now Republicans Time

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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

~Barney Frank

Topics: Entitled Innocence People Presumption

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The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.

~Barney Frank

Topics: American American Life Clinton Code Economic Increase Life Made More Most Nearly Only People Periods Primarily Productive Progressive Tax Tax Code Tax Increase Taxes Which

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The regulation of medicine has been a State function.

~Barney Frank

Topics: Been Function Medicine Regulation State

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Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.

~Barney Frank

Topics: Affected Carried Going Granted How Lives Many Notion Out People Policies Public Say Should Take Take For Granted Today Very Whose

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: March 31st, 1940

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