Able Quote by Roger Ailes

“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

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

“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

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

— Mercedes Schlapp

There probably could be some mileage in running a comparative study about how best to finance electoral campaigns around the world.

— Jose Angel Gurria

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

— George Santayana

“In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We should recognize that. If you’ve taken an economics course, you…

— Noam Chomsky

TV ads are great for broadcasting, but voter turnout is about narrow-casting. And not all messengers are created equal.

— Ari Melber

When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.

— Tucker Carlson

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

— John Podhoretz

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

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

— David Ogilvy