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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber. ”

Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone's motive and deconstructing and questioning anyone's Democratic bona fides. After all, we liberals got feelings. ”

Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane. ”

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. ”

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

Every gun sold should require a background check, period. ”

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