Political Quotes

“20 cents to empower the parents of this country to do what every one of them does with their children today when they ask if they can go to a movie theater, give them a limited number of choices to help them make decisions that they cannot be in that movie theater when their child asks them to go with another friend to see a movie: G, PG, PG-13, R, and C-17, X, and not rated. The V-chip will give them a similar opportunity to do something with television that they cannot possibly do just by reading the newspaper ads. Mr. Chairman, we have 50 channels on the cable system in Roanoke today. It is going to grow to 100 to 200 in cities across this country. Today the only way parents can exercise that same rating opportunity is to have a technological way to do it built into the television set. The V-chip will give them the opportunity to do that. It is not Government censorship. There is nothing in this bill that empowers the Federal Government in any way to impose these ratings on any of the networks.”