Barney Frank

“ It is hard to combine passion and common sense in a political cause--people who feel strongly often have an understandable difficulty in controlling their strong feelings to the point where they can follow the most rational strategies, and serving as the head of an organization exacerbates this, since the head of such a group is required to preach thoughtfulness to people who are--often justifiably--far too angry to want to think about things. ”

“ I believe that we will some day in the near future abolish this unfair "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which discriminates against individuals and deprives our military of personnel who would perform useful services at a time when we need that. ”