Michael Schudson

Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.