Gary Ackerman: “If you want to exercise free speech, you shouldn't have a government license.”

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

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

Today the Middle East is a very different region than the one I first encountered as a new Member of Congress in 1983.

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