Gary Ackerman: “Ayatollah Khomeini is not a cleric, he is a butcher. Bashar al-Assad is not a political leader, he is a mob boss.”

Anything less is demeaning to the process and to ourselves as good, decent human beings.

Let's discredit the administration instead of 'Let's fix the Middle East.'

We need two viable political parties in this country to make our democracy work.

Ask not who the guilty party is; it is you. It is us. It is this committee.