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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."
"I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique."
"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."
"Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything."
"Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario."
"Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy."
"I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes."
"Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults."
"Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?"
"In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide."
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"Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions."
"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."
"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."
"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."
"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."
"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends."
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