Political Quotes

“I rise in opposition in strong opposition to this amendment that would eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities. As has been mentioned, we have teachers throughout the country that have been undergoing courses to help to teach. We have had films of the Civil War, baseball, that we have viewed that have been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is something we cannot afford to eliminate. It has been phased out. Let us not terminate it now. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment by Mr. Chabot to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities [NEH]. The NEH budget is $99.49 million. It is less than one one-hundreths of the Federal budget and it spends 70 cents per person on the humanities--on history, English literature, foreign languages, sociology, anthropology, comparative religion, and other disciplines. Remember the ``Civil War'' series by Ken Burns on public television? I watched it after I read an editorial by noted columnist George Will, who praised this series as one of the best productions in the history of television. NEH's work preserved the photographs which Ken Burns used in his award-winning series. Without this NEH support, the film would not have been possible, because there would be no known corpus of photographs on the Civil War. I know that each of us in Congress can point to worthwhile projects in our districts that are aided by NEH.”