63 Quotes by Jack Valenti

We want to tell American parents that they and they alone have total power to control every hour of television programming that comes into their home.

We're hard at work trying to make parents better understand that they have total control today over what individual programs they allow into their homes. We want to show a closer rapport between the TV ratings system and the movie ratings system.

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

Sen. Stevens asked me if I would attend a work-forum on ratings systems, how they work and how they were developed. I told him I would be there.

I don't know any other business that tells you not to go in and buy their product.

Frankly I will confess to this panel that privately I take issue every now and then with the rating of a film, and I think the rating board might have erred. But if there are errors in the accuracy of a movie rating, it is a matter of a judgment call and not an exile in integrity,

To endure in a volatile, unpredictable arena populated by egos the size of small planets is not an inconsiderable achievement,

wipe the Karl Rove story off the front page.

When people make up invitation lists, they are in the top 10.