Political Quotes

“if Members of the Senate have enjoyed and appreciated ``Prairie Home Companion,'' the great work of Ken Burns' ``Civil War,'' ``Baseball''--and now he is doing a new one on Susan B. Anthony and Liz Stanton dealing with the women's movement--and if they have enjoyed with their children ``Sesame Street,'' which is Big Bird and Elmo, then every person in the Senate should support my amendment. We want to keep public broadcasting public and not commercial broadcasting. We do not want it, like most everything else in America, to be commercialized. Our children and the rest of America at least deserve this much from their Congress. This amendment cries out for support. This is an education and labor bill, and I underline education. There is nothing more important as it relates to education than having a sound public broadcasting function of our Government.”