Barney Frank

You become kind of – I think there is a certain blandness that politicians have that does not work to your favor.

So if you can be somewhat distinctive in ways that are not offensive, I think that's helpful.

Thank you.

I really enjoyed this.

We had some good questions there.

Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table.

I have no interest in doing it.

I think that I love this job, but the biggest problem is there are thousands of people in Washington who earn a living by trying to waste my time.

One of the advantages to me of not running for office is I don't even have to pretend to try to be nice to people I don't like.

I just didn't pay a lot of attention.

to how I dressed and how I looked, especially during campaigns.

And I had a tendency to eat a lot when I was stressed.

So people would try to get me to keep my hair combed better or dress better, buy more, you know, buy suits before the old one wore out.

I said I just wanted to alert you that there may be some

stuff coming out about my being gay.

He said, oh, Barney, don't be listening to that crap.

They say all that stuff about all this.

I said, well, Tip, the point here is that it's true.

The Dow tumbled more than 500 points.

It was the worst day on Wall Street since the crash of 1987.