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Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed.

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.