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Jack Valenti Quotes

In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.

"What Jack Valenti Taught Us All" by Matt Gerson, www.washingtonpost.com. April 28, 2007.

I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

Jack Valenti (2007). “This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood”, p.168, Crown Archetype

A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.

Jack Valenti's comments on the Cable television industry in testimony to Congress (June 1974), as quoted in "What Jack Valenti Did for Hollywood" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. April 27, 2007.

No one today knows what is indecent.

"US TV industry plans June ad campaign on decency". Reuters, April 24, 2006.

If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.

Jack Valenti's testimony as President of the MPAA to the U.S. House of Representatives, cryptome.org. April 12, 1982.

If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don’t Own Anything!

Jack Valenti (2007). “This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood”, p.301, Crown Archetype

There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.

Interview with Peter Rojas, www.engadget.com. August 30, 2004.

If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.

"DVD-copy program tweaked after court order", CNN.com, February 23, 2004.