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I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.

— Jack Valenti Testimony to the US House of Representatives (1982)

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

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

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