Gary Ackerman

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

I don't like to get in front of people.

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.