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From his keynote speech at the Maine People's Alliance 30th anniversary Rising Tide awards dinner, June 9, 2012, held at Woodford's Congregational Church in Portland.
• Quoted in Koenig, Seth (June 10, 2012), "Barney Frank tackles gay marriage, defense spending in Portland speech", work: Bangor Daily News, retrieved: 2012-06-11
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There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn't make any difference. It's the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. [...] The bumper sticker I'm going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, "We're not perfect, but they're nuts."

— Barney Frank

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn't make any difference. It's the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. [...] The bumper sticker I'm going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, "We're not perfect, but they're nuts."" in the context of "From his keynote speech at the Maine People's Alliance 30th anniversary Rising Tide awards dinner, June 9, 2012, held at Woodford's Congregational Church in Portland.
• Quoted in Koenig, Seth (June 10, 2012), "Barney Frank tackles gay marriage, defense spending in Portland speech", work: Bangor Daily News, retrieved: 2012-06-11" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Barney Frank

About Barney Frank

Barnett "Barney" Frank (born March 31, 1940) is an American politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee (2007–2011) and was a leading co-sponsor of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Act, a sweeping reform of the U.S. financial industry. Frank, a resident of Newton, Massachusetts, is considered the most prominent gay politician in the United States.