Gary Ackerman Quotes

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

Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

I’ve had meetings with Fidel Castro. I’ve had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I’ve had meetings with other dictators. I’ve met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it’s important to hear, you know, each other’s perspective.

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

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.

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

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

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

I am always fascinated by India.

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?’

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.

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don’t know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

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

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.