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Gingrich and then tom delay. i've said this before. if tom delay was taking my advice during the period when i was in the minority bill clinton wouldn't have been impeached. we wouldn't have gone to war in iraq. and he wouldn't have gone on the dance show. he didn't accept my advice on any of those issues. now, gingrich is clearly there when they are refusing to do any reform. read hank paulson's book. paulson says, bush's secretary of treasury, in 2006 when he became secretary, he talked to me. i was then in the minority but it looked like the democrats might take over. he said accurately to ...

Having been a former speaker has never been considered an academic credential. the fact is that what he's -- this is really symptomatic of the republicans' effort to kind of blame us for their mistakes, which you see, of course, with the effort to blame obama for what he inherited from george bush. here's the basic point. fannie mae and freddie mac went unregulated for the 12 years during which the republicans controlled the congress. they ran it from 1995 to 2006. chris dodd and i were in the minority. and people who think i was secretly advising tom delay on what to do, i got to tell you, if...

Again, they blame me because when we were in the minority and the republicans were the majority, nothing happened to fannie mae and freddie mac and i guess the assumption is i was secretly controlling tom delay and my argument that proves that i wasn't is -- >> not long been my theory. >> tom delay, if he was taking advice from me, he wouldn't have gone on the dance show. i think i can prove it wasn't me. the fact is fannie mae and freddie mac caused a lot of the problems. they are now in conservatorship and not doing that and we do plan in the next phase to replace them. but they have been mo...

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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. now, some of you may not think i've been good at it, but i've been trying. >> barney frank trying to be nice to people or fairly regularly failing to be nice to people while making his political point, that has been one of the great spectacles of american politics. one of great spectacles of american legislating for the entire time he has been in congress. >> apparently i had some secret influence over the republican leadership that i never knew about because if i had, i would have told th...