Political Quotes

“But I think we are talking about here not a government mandate. It is no more a mandate for parents to be able to have a tool to use to decide what their kids are going to see than to have a PG rating or an R rating. That is put out by at least a quasi-governmental board, and yet it is something that is available in the absence of anything else. The best thing in the world is for a parent to have seen a show and say that show is okay for my kids. That is how we do with the movies generally. But you cannot do that now with this giant menu of shows that are available. There is no working parent in the country who can go through 300 television shows before they leave for work and say I think these are good for the kids. So in the absence of that, with the mom or the dad running out the door to make their second job, they at least, if they want to, can click this V-chip in and perhaps restrain some of the violence. Mr. Chairman, I think it makes sense. Vote for the Burton amendment and vote against the Coburn amendment.”