Charles W. Pickering Quotes

The public owns the airwaves; Congress gave them to broadcasters for free, with the understanding that they would serve the public interest while trying to maximize profit. An aspect of serving the public is to use the immense power of electronic media to reflect evolving standards of respect for other people.

We sort of have given up on the idea of taking any sort of personal responsibility for what we see. I don't understand it at all. There are many things that I won't let my kids watch.

Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.

Isn't it only appropriate that, in return for the free use of the public spectrum, broadcasters provide something substantial, something that wouldn't otherwise be provided by marketplace competition?

Take responsibility about what you have on your TV, and about what you are out there supporting.

And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

The FCC has a moral obligation to protect the public from being ‘blitzed’ and ‘saturated’ with campaign ads.

We have pleaded to the entertainment industry to raise their standards and protect our children.

The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.

There are those who blame the Press, but in this I think they are mistaken. The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

Hope survives best at the hearth.

Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time.

When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

No,''he said.''I was a Strigoi. I was one of them. I did...terrible things.'' The words were mild, but the tone of his voice spoke legions. The radiant faces of his family turned sober.''I was lost. Beyond hope. Except...Rose believed in me. Rose never gave up.

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five girls, which gives me great hope for the future - girl power! Can I say that without alienating all of the men?