Political Quotes

“First the argument that this will be the end of free TV is, of course, nonsense, as Senator Dole pointed out. The broadcasters say, if you make us pay for this license, we will not be able to give you free TV. Ninety-four percent of the current broadcasters paid for that license. What they mean is, if we can pay each other billions of dollars, then we can do it for free. But if any of that leaks into the public, we will have to charge. As Senator Dole pointed out in this speech, 94 percent of the current broadcasters paid for their license. What happens, of course, is they get the license for free. And that will happen with these licenses. We will give some digital, some licenses to the spectrum. People will get into the digital business. They will sell them back and forth to each other. Some of the wealthiest entities in this society are making money off of each other on this, which would be fine if it did not all begin with a free grant from the public. That is the second point. My friend from Texas says, this is the way it ought to be, by Government fiat. Understand, and this, it seems to me, is the greatest inconsistency, I guess we once again understand, the free market is for minimum wage workers. The free market is for women on welfare. The free market is for little people. You reach a point where you are too big to be in the free market.”