William Tauzin: “When we came out of the movie, I said, Son, what did you take from this? What did this mean to you? And he thought a…”

“When we came out of the movie, I said, Son, what did you take from this? What did this mean to you? And he thought a long while and in the car with me he said, what I take from this movie, Dad, is that freedom is meaningless without choice. And I thought about that and I thought, that is pretty profound for a 25-year-old. What he was saying, basically, from this movie, is that if someone else is making all the choices for you, if you are without choice, you are not really free. Freedom, by definition, is choice. It is your capacity to choose for yourself right or wrong what you do with your life. And then it occurred to me how meaningful that little profound conversation we had was and how it relates to this issue tonight. Because we are talking about a generation of Americans who Tom Brokaw called the Greatest Generation of Americans, who fought for this entire world to be free, for we in this country to have freedom of choice in our lives.”