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"The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads."
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"I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second."

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."

"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."

"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."

"There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past."

"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."

"The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague."

"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda."

"The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising."
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"The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning."


"We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test."


"If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started."


"It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it."


"Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily."


"Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved."


"Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns."


"The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do."


"We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people."


"Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime."
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