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When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

A lot of television stuff is mean-spirited, and I think that's how political advertising got so mean-spirited, to where people are throwing things at the television set every time we have an election.

Commercials capture your attention, that's all.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

You can feel how much money goes into commercials by how swiftly they act on your mind. And they've got, like, a hypnotic quality to the way they present their products.