Barney Frank

The regulation of medicine has been a State function.

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.

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.