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Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

— Anton Chekhov

“It will be hard to dispel the myth that spending big money on advertising is the path to electoral victory, but we do know…

— Becky Bond

The billionaires and their super PACs increasingly control the American political process. This is not democracy. This is not what brave Americans fought and…

— Bernie Sanders

It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.

— Elizabeth Warren

Somehow it did not occur to us that, in a developed democracy, regular media advertising could turn out to be a suspicious and harmful…

— Margarita Simonyan

Can democracy survive television?

— Anonymous

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

— H. L. Mencken

Democracy functions better when donors push politicians to win campaigns based on their defining issues instead of using financial pressure for policy changes, favors,…

— Ari Melber

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

— John Rawls

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

“Elections are run by the public relations industry. Its primary task is commercial advertising, which is designed to undermine markets by creating uninformed consumers…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— John O'Toole