Gary Ackerman: “Hope may be an effective campaign catchphrase, but it is not an effective policy.”

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

I have always found that Members of Congress don't get enough credit for being as thoughtful as most of us have been.

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.