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I am always fascinated by India.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Fascinated
India
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Patriots don't let their nation default.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Patriotism
Default
Nations
Patriot
Nation
Patriots
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We're not looking at banning all weapons.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Weapons
Banning
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I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Favors
Immigration
Needs
Rules
Favor
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Every gun sold should require a background check, period.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Checks
Gun
Should
Background
Check
Require
Sold
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Children
Inhumane
People
Unthinkable
Telling
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India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Doe
India
Needs
Establish
Regional
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No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Vote
Floor
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We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Bunch
Congress
Members
Jewish
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Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Sympathy
Making Money
People
Rich People
Money Lose People
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Checks
Lazy
Media
Report
Check
Gotten
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We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
America
Empty
Rules And Regulations
World
Rules
Out Here
Regulations
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Sometimes in order to make progress and move ahead, you have to stand up and do the wrong thing.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Moving
Order
Progress
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Higher
People
Pride
Sometimes
Jewish
Great People Sometimes
Great Pride People
Great Pride
Held
Higher Standard
Standard
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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
America
Democracy
Jerk
Risk
Siege
Threatened
Burns
Flag
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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.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Fourth
Knows
Thirds
Third
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Cold
Storm
Wave
Flag
Raise
Who Am I
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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Government
Agendas
Explicit
Political
Resources
Agenda
Flat Out
Official
Political Agenda
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Congressman
Good Things
Privilege
Good People Never
Good People Good Things
Senator
Fully
Owe
Repay
Whom
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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.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
America
Convince
Party
People
Both Parties
Notions
Parties
Problematic
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Capitol
Symbols
White House
Freedom Free People
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It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. Its not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
People
Real
Thinking
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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.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Aisle
Blame
Real Friends
Dumber
Gotten
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Congress
Debate
Decision
Insert
Unqualified
Unconscionable
Particularly
Intrude
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And it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly ignore states rights, that say that the federal government or federalism has no business in this kind of business.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Government
Party
Rights
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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.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Beijing
Castro
Important
Meetings
Perspective
Thinking
Butcher
Dictators
Met
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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.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Assuming
Constructive
Democratic
Looking Forward
Motive
Prove
Questioning
Bona
Examine
Liberals
Prior
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Cups
Delicious
Flying
Hands
Irony
Luxury
People
Seeing
Tin
Businesses
Coming
Washington
Jets
Private
Saying
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Kids
Blessed
Elderly
Greedy
Hungry
Needy
Tyrants
Feed
Defend
Demanded
Led
Personally
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Baghdad
Brave
Gay
Military
People
Chase
Lesbians
Platoon
Terrorists
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Concerned
Fearful
Cross
Political Party
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Confused
Hockey
Journalism
Philosophy
Stirring
Broadcast
Project
First Thing
Journalists
No Difference
Philosophies
The First Thing
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Animal
Country
People
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Animal
Compromise
Down The Road
Good And Evil
Intolerance
Purgatory
Best Good Better
Best Good Look
Complete
Different Kind
Worse
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