Gary Ackerman Quotes


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

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

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

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.

We're not looking at banning all weapons.

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.

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.

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?'

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.

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.

Sometimes in order to make progress and move ahead you have to stand up and do the wrong thing.

Patriots don't let their nation default.

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

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.

I am always fascinated by India.

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

Whether rich people make money or lose money they get no sympathy from the public.

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.