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"As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise."
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."

"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."

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

"You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern."

"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."

"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 future of advertising is the Internet."

"That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in."
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"If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government."

"Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter."

"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends."

"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."

"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."

"Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions."
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