Reed Hundt Quotes

The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.

Why on earth does anybody watch that stuff [television violence]?

Our children are being fed a daily dosage of violence …. I know this stuff sells, but that doesn't make it right.

What we watch on television, we approve.

Every political persuasion has something they want to get off the screen.

I was brought up when media still kept totally away from violence when it came to children. I don't think it would have made me scared of violence, but I find it repulsive.

There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people through vicious and violent video games.

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.

I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing for young kids.

Soap operas have become sex operas.

We have to ask people who produce things [entertainment] to consider their consequence—especially with children.

Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.

We have pleaded to the entertainment industry to raise their standards and protect our children.

If you see anything scary on television, you can turn it off.

Regardless of the strength of the government's interest [in protecting children,] the level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.

Another activity that can detract us from the proper way is watching television excessively or viewing improper movies. While fine productions on these media are uplifting and entertaining, we need to be very selective in choosing what we see and how much of our time such an activity deserves. Our precious time must not be diverted to the sideline attractions of vulgar language, immoral conduct, pornography, and violence.

A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.

On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?

I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

Nothing is really real unless it “happens” on television…Television has brought an inversion of our consciousness. When we take our eyes off the tube, we see things that are not quite authentic – or rather, which gain authenticity only by their resemblance to how things happen on television

What we have to do is stop children from killing children.