Sometimes in order to make progress and move ahead, you have to stand up and do the wrong thing.
Gary AckermanWe have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
Gary AckermanFor some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.
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 AckermanPolitics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
Gary AckermanYou 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 Ackerman