Jack Joseph Valenti a été conseiller à la Maison-Blanche du temps de Lyndon Johnson et président de la Motion Picture Association of America , de 1966 à 2004. Pendant cette longue période d'activité, il fut généralement considéré comme un des lobbyistes pro-droit d'auteur les plus influents dans le monde. Il créa en 1968 le système de notation MPAA. Wikipedia
“In a political struggle, never get personal — else the dagger digs too deep.”
As quoted in "What Jack Valenti Taught Us All" in The Washingtion Post (28 April 2007) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/27/AR2007042701782.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
“No one today knows what is indecent.”
As quoted in "US TV industry plans June ad campaign on decency" Reuters news agency (24 April 2006)
“If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.”
Statement to the Associated Press (November 2003), as quoted in "DVD-copy program tweaked after court order" at CNN.com (23 February 2004) http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/02/23/dvd.suit.ap/
A Plea For Keeping Alive the U.S. Film Industry’s Competitive Energy (1995)
“I don’t know any other business that tells you not to go in and buy their product.”
On the film rating system, as quoted in The New York Times (5 May 1985)