Ads Quote by James Lileks

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

— John O'Toole

Mr. Trump's election has caused a tectonic shift in advertising - just as it has in media more generally - and themes that might…

— James B. Stewart

“Campaign ads are often nothing more than political taffy. The ingredients- the facts gathered by researchers such as Alan and me- are mixed together…

— Alan Huffman

The fact is that much of advertising's power comes from this belief that advertising does not affect us. The most effective kind of propaganda…

— Jean Kilbourne

Unfortunately, every American citizen takes the same position... that we don’t like negative advertisements. But they work! And, as you see, many a candidate…

— Jimmy Carter

One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as…

— Ross Perot

There is one category of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.

— David Ogilvy

I've knocked out any number of Democrats using ads associating them with the brand toxicity of Reid, Pelosi, and Obama, and before that Ted…

— Rick Wilson

When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Even though voters overwhelmingly dislike negative ads, they do influence voters' opinions about a candidate.

— Mercedes Schlapp

I think when a campaign is dishonest in the ads they run about another candidate, it diminishes the campaign, it diminishes the candidate, and…

— Mitt Romney

Politics is gut; commercials are gut.

— Frank Luntz