LAW & REGULATION
"There are quite a few votes to be won by saying we will tax advertising or stop it."
Barry Day, Vice Chairman of McCann-Erickson, quoted in Eric Clark, The Want Makers: Inside the World of Advertising, 1988, New York: Penguin Books, p. 125.
"Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed."
Jack Gould (1963), quoted in Bruce Bohle, The Home Book of American Quotations, 1967, New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, p. 5.
"The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?"
Jef I. Richards (1995), advertising professor, The University of Texas at Austin.
"Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech."
Jef I. Richards (1995), advertising professor, The University of Texas at Austin.
"The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?"
Jef I. Richards (1995), advertising professor, The University of Texas at Austin.