What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.

You play into their hand when you let them provoke you into overdoing it. Frank never again dated a woman. In 2006 a Fannie Mae representative stated in SEC filings that they "did not participate in large amounts of these non-traditional mortgages in 2004 and 2005.

Born and raised in Bayonne New Jersey Frank graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He was elected to the U. Frank did not seek re-election in 2012 and retired from Congress at the end of his term in January 2013.