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.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

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

The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.