JACK VALENTI

Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

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

There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.

You don’t make any money in the White House—that’s for darn sure—but you can get things done….The most rewarding experience I have ever had was my three years in the White House.

You never want to inhale your press clippings.

… an avalanche of avarice

In politics you learn from the mistakes you made and the mistakes that you see other people make.

When you get into a political fight, never try and kill your opponent. Leave him an exit way to escape with his dignity intact. Remember your enemy today you may need as an ally tomorrow.

They lied, they cheated, they stole, they had the power to do it and they did.

Nothing of value is free.

No one today knows what is indecent

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

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

I think politicians and movie actors … are similar in more ways than they’re different. There is an egocentric quality about both; there is a very sensitive awareness of the public attitude, because you live or die on public favor or disfavor. There is the desire for publicity and for acclaim, because, again, that’s part of your life... And in a strange and bizarre way, when movie actors come to Washington, they’re absolutely fascinated by the politicians. And when the politicians go to Hollywood, they’re absolutely fascinated by the movie stars. It’s a kind of reciprocity of affection by people who both recognize in a sense they’re in the same racket.

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

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.

It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.

To many Congressmen and Senators right now, there's a ceaseless antagonism toward Hollywood because politically, it is high-reward and low-risk. So when you can't do anything about poverty or the budget deficit, and you can't deal with Bosnia or the possibility of nuclear explosions in Russia, what do you do? You bash Hollywood and get on the front pages.

I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. For I know he lives and thinks and works to make sure that for all America and indeed, the growing body of the free world, the morning shall always come.