A quiz

Who said this?

If an adult in this country, with his or her own money, wants to engage in an activity that harms no one, how dare we prohibit it because it doesn't add to the GDP or it has no macroeconomic benefit. Are we all to take home calculators and, until we have satisfied the gentleman from Iowa that we are being socially useful, we abstain from recreational activities that we choose?... People have said, What is the value of gambling ? Here is the value. Some human beings enjoy doing it. Shouldn't that be our principle? If individuals like doing something and they harm no one, we will allow them to do it, even if other people disapprove of what they do.

You might expect it to have been a libertarian from the far west. In the old days, it could have been a conservative Republican. You would be wrong. It was a liberal from the northeast -- Barney Frank, speaking against the anti-gambling amendment attached to the port security bill.

[Lifted from Glenn Greenwald's post on the GOP's war on private behavior (see link above).]