Bill Clinton: “Well, I think--and I think that's--I think excessive exposure to mind-numbing violence or crass abuse of people in…”

“Well, I think--and I think that's--I think excessive exposure to mind-numbing violence or crass abuse of people in sexual and other ways has a bad impact on young children, especially if they don't have the kind of structure and other leadership in their life that they need. But what I would say is that we need to ask ourselves: What does the entertainment community need to do? What does the media need to do? What does the business community need to do? What does the religious community need to do? What do the politicians need to do? What's our contribution to all this? That is, my only quarrel with all this is I don't want to see it politicized. I agree with a lot of what Senator Dole said. I don't know about the specific movies; I hadn't seen most of the ones he mentioned. But I think that we need to do this in a spirit not of dividing each other but of asking everybody to come forward and be accountable. Mr. King. Is the rap on Time-Warner fair? The Vice President. Well, I think that they have put out a lot of material that they shouldn't have. And it's not true that this administration hasn't talked about it. In fact, there was a public back- and-forth when one of their properties had some inappropriate material on President Reagan's Alzheimer's disease, and we said, ``Hey, wait a minute.'' And they pulled it back. And I give them credit for that. And there have been other examples. And let me say this: My wife, Tipper, began working on this and talking about this 18 years ago. And a few years after that, she began to get criticized from all parts. Before they were in the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton were among the few who stood up and said, ``We support what Tipper Gore is saying about this.'' And it took some doing, but she succeeded in getting the voluntary system of labeling for records. But she's continued talking about it. And she and I have appreciated the fact that this is the first President to talk about this in the State of the Union Address, to go to Hollywood and make a speech about it, and to take on this phenomenon in a responsible way, not in a partisan way. Mr. King. Are you also against violent movies that Mr. Dole didn't mention, like ``True Lies,'' let's say, a Schwarzenegger movie that had a lot of violence?”