Gary Ackerman: “We should be working together and not at cross purposes.”

To try to blame that on the administration is like me trying to blame President Bush for Pluto being thrown out of the list of planets.

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

I still find it intriguing that people who are such really brilliant thinkers will sometimes reach conclusions that one might legitimately disagree with.

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