"I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda."

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Barney Frank

#Running Quotes #Gay Quotes #Rights Quotes

“If we stop and look over the past and then into the future, we can see that the possibilities are growing greater and greater every day; that we have scarcely begun to reach the proper results from the field we have before us.”
“The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.”
“In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.”

Source : "Sir Richard Mottram" by Richard Norton-Taylor, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2002.
“I don't think there is anything this Congress could do more definitively to put people back to work, to stimulate our economy to increase our efficiency, our competitiveness, both nationally and internationally”
“I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.”
“I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.”
“Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.”
“Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.”

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