Barney Frank

And my response was, well, it doesn't hurt any individual marriages.

But despite that, it somehow hurts the institution of marriage.

That is an argument that ought to be made by someone in an institution.

Not often.

They kind of come to me.

I'm lucky that way.

You know, there are some things I'm not very good at.

But I like humor.

And some of them, the best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.

I didn't try to—my mother, a wonderful woman who became a great advocate later in her life, did enroll me in elocution classes when I was seven or eight, but it was a well-intended gesture, but it didn't work.

No, in fact, what I learned how to do was it's kind of a political judo.

I think I was able to make an asset out of some of my defects.

For example, I have a hard time dressing well.

God bless him, worked very hard to keep me in good shape.

But in my first campaign, somebody wrote an article and said I was wearing an ill-fitting suit, and I said, no, that's unfair.

It was a well-fitting suit.

It just—I wasn't the person it fit.

And as a state representative, somebody took a picture of me in which I looked a little disheveled, and I put it up, said, real act frank, neatness isn't everything.

So the same with my voice.

You know, it—