You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you canโt compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, โThey are taking the country down the road to purgatory.โ Itโs complete intolerance.
Gary AckermanThere'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 AckermanIf a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
Gary AckermanThe 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