Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

Patriots don't let their nation default.

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

Every gun sold should require a background check, period.

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

I am always fascinated by India.

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.

Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman

The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.