Political Quotes

“Prairie Home Companion'': My wife and I have enjoyed many Sunday afternoons listening to this great program on public radio. It lasts 2 hours; there is music, comedy, drama. It is a great program. It comes on public radio. On public television, we all watched the series on the Civil War. I don't know if there was a more dramatic, a more effective presentation of history ever made on public broadcasting than of the Civil War. It was tremendous. Then several years later, the same person who produced the Civil War series produced a magnificent series on baseball, the history of baseball. It had pictures we had never seen, stories we had never heard, all on public broadcasting, all without any type of commercial interruption of any kind. I watched on public broadcasting, public television, a presentation about the city of New York. I have been to the city of New York numerous times. Never did I see New York as it was shown in that program. I saw parts of New York I would never, ever be able to see. I understand New York better than I would have ever been able to understand New York as a result of that program on public television. I am a fan of public broadcasting. I think America is a fan of public broadcasting. We can look back to the mid-1990s when Newt Gingrich took control of the House of Representatives and publicly proposed cutting all public broadcasting funds.…”