Quotes

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

David Ogilvy 1988

Category: Political Marketing

Tags: David Ogilvy, Political Marketing, Political Parties

Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.

P J O'Rourke 1988

Category: Party Political Broadcasts, Political Marketing

Tags: P J O'Rourke, Party Political Broadcasts, Political Marketing, Political Parties

Of course you sell candidates for political office the same way you sell soap or sealing wax or whatever; because, when you get right down to it, that's the only way anything is sold.

Sid Bernstein 1988

Sid Bernstein, advertising commentator, quoted in Eric Clark, The Want Makers: Inside the World of Advertising, 1988, New York: Penguin Books, p. 291

Category: Political Marketing

Tags: Political Marketing, Political Parties, Sid Bernstein

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Within a decade no child will go to bed hungry.

Henry Kissinger

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