Jack Valenti Quotes

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

  Jack Valenti

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

  Jack Valenti

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

  Jack Valenti

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

  Jack Valenti

• No one today knows what is indecent.

  Jack Valenti

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

  Jack Valenti

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

  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.

  Jack Valenti

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

  Jack Valenti

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

  Jack Valenti

Jack Valenti (10)

Birth:	5th September, 1921
Death:	26th April, 2007
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Lobbyist, Political Assistant

About

Jack Joseph Valenti was born in Houston, Texas, USA. He was an American businessman, lobbyist and political advisor. He was a longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America. He earned a BBA degree from the University of Houston in 1946. He earned his MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1952. During World War II, he was a first lieutenant in the United States Army Air Force. Following the assassination of President Kennedy, Valenti was present in the famous photograph of Lyndon Johnson's swearing in aboard Air Force One, and flew with the new president to Washington. He then became the first "special assistant" to Johnson's White House and lived in the White House for the first two months of Johnson's presidency.

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