Jef I. Richards Quotes
Sad Quotes by Jef I. Richards

Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future'
is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.
- Jef I. Richards

Creative without strategy is called 'art.'
Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'
- Jef I. Richards

In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising
bears the earmarks of an endangered species.
- Jef I. Richards

While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth,
never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.
- Jef I. Richards

In advertising, sex sells.
But only if you're selling sex.
- Jef I. Richards

Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine?
How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare,
'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?
- Jef I. Richards

Advertising is totally unnecessary.
Unless you hope to make money.
- Jef I. Richards

Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset,
because it is the rarest.
- Jef I. Richards

The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest,
but allows political candidates to lie without reproach.
What's wrong with this picture?
- Jef I. Richards

Advertising is speech.
It's regulated because it's often effective speech.
- Jef I. Richards

Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread.
- Jef I. Richards

Commercial speech is like obscenity...
we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
- Jef I. Richards

I believe 'credibility' is one of the biggest issues
yet to be addressed by Internet advertisers.
- Jef I. Richards

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics.
Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.
- Jef I. Richards

There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing.
But not all advertising is bad.
Some of it is really quite mediocre.
- Jef I. Richards

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted.
If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.
- Jef I. Richards

The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation.
It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight,
their hair, their skin, their wardrobe,
and their aroma.
- Jef I. Richards

There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising.
Journalism aspires to truth.
Advertising is regulated for truth.
I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country
up against the average news story any time.
- Jef I. Richards

Suppose you were an idiot,
and suppose you were a member of Congress;
but I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain

You can lead a man to Congress,
but you can't make him think.
- Milton Berle

This country has come to feel the same when Congress
is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
- Will Rogers

You know they say the most dangerous person of the
world is a member of the United States Congress just
home from a three-day fact-finding trip.
- Johnny Isakson

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment
on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum
of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
- Andy Grove

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if
the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
- Cullen Hightower

To hear some men talk of the government,
you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation,
and kept the planets in their places.
- Wendell Phillips

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
- Cullen Hightower

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening
in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
- Hendrik Willem Van Loon

They say that women talk too much.
If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
- Clare Boothe Luce

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often
focus on how much money or effort is spent,
rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
- Donald Rumsfeld

I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina,
for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln
in the defense of that Capitol.
- Abraham Whipple

The retirement system that is in place for members
of Congress and other federal workers features what
is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan.
- Virgil Goode

It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media
and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.
- Pat Robertson

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty,
embodied in our nation's parks, rivers,
and breathtaking landscapes.
- Dave Reichert

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines -
not to send more troops to Iraq -
but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.
- Mark Udall

I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.
- Rafael Palmeiro

Clean air is a basic right.
The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.
- Thomas Carper

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man
except unconstitutional government and high taxes.
- Charley Reese

I supported Bob Schaffer's three races for Congress.
But we all had concerns about whether he could win statewide.
Then my wife suggested that I get it.
- Pete Coors

Medicare debates in Congress should result in better
Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors.
We're not asking for special treatment for rural America,
just a fair deal.
- Bennie Thompson

In addition to demanding answers and accountability
from the Veterans Administration,
Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer
because of the actions of a federal agency.
- Doc Hastings

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress,
the potential for mischief is great.
- Chris Chocola

I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee,
headed by Paul Weyrich.
Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers,
with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.
- Dixie Lee Ray

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a
bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.
- David E. Price

I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe,
the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,'
rather than 'Jim Kolbe,
gay congressman from Arizona.'
- Jim Kolbe

If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American
people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities,
the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why.
- Corrine Brown

If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate,
we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House,
on the Republican Congress.
- Patty Murray

As a member of Congress, and a parent,
I understand the importance of ensuring that families
are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones.
- Jon Porter

If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain,
as many did, then I should surely stand up for them
here in the halls of Congress.
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value
of publicly-supported research at our universities,
both to the Congress and to the general public.
- Charles Vest

When I testified in front of Congress,
I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.
- Rafael Palmeiro

It's so worth-while being a judge, because,
if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench,
in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.
- Florence E. Allen

We have some Jewish members of Congress,
not a lot but there's a bunch of us.
- Gary Ackerman

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.
- Dave Reichert

The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet,
but the last thing this Congress should be doing is
trying to stifle public debate online.
- Dennis Hastert

Sometimes Congress likes to milk an issue.
- Steve Largent

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan -
it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.
- Camille Paglia

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.
- Thomas E. Mann

I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well;
not simply as a body of legislators,
but more importantly as a community of friends,
neighbors, parents and Americans.
- Jim Walsh

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay
for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors
of powerful members of Congress.
- Nick Lampson

With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes
to reflect new therapeutic options.
- Nathan Deal

We the people are the rightful masters
of both Congress and the courts,
not to overthrow the Constitution
but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
- Abraham Lincoln

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress.
But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war.
You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
- Val Kilmer

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President.
We get them from God.
- Glenn Beck

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction
during their first term in Congress.
- John George Nicolay

I have to thank the People, the Congress,
and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
- Lajos Kossuth

As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable,
the issue of the War must Settle it.
Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.
- Abraham Clark

What right does Congress have to go around making laws
just because they deem it necessary?
- Marion Barry

Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.
- Bob Ehrlich

Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for
increased resources for research in the physical sciences
and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular.
- Judy Biggert

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress
go up every time we go into recess?
- Robert Byrd

But the Congress has made the determination that certain
kinds of information can be protected even though the
American people may want to have access to information.
- Alberto Gonzales