Gary Ruskin Quotations

Leadership by example has never been a forte of the United States Congress. We see more of 'Do as I say, not as I do.' This is just another example.

There is evidence that some of these companies are perpetrating large-scale deception upon consumers by deploying buzz marketers who fail to disclose that they have been enlisted to promote products.

The purpose of the Mobile Marketing Association is to safeguard this new form of spam that is literally in your face.

He's part of it, and he doesn't have the courage to stand up to do anything about it.

We need schools to stand on the side of parents who want to teach good nutrition, not on the side of junk-food companies who want to teach bad nutrition.

When it comes to institutional policing of corruption in Congress, John Murtha is a one-man wrecking crew.

The problem with congressional perks is that both parties love them. The congressional perk caucus is bipartisan and strong.

This will be a way to bypass parents and talk to kids directly.

People should know when they are talking to a corporate shill.

The names of our civic places reflect our values and our aspirations, ... It's wrong to sever the link between civic names and civic virtue.

So the question is who else is going to know. We are concerned about the invasion of privacy related to corporate advertisers knowing your position.

The mission of the Smithsonian is to increase the diffusion of knowledge, not the diffusion of junk food.

This is part of the creep of advertising into every nook and cranny of our lives. This is advertising right in your face.

This is ad creep - the creep of advertising into just about every part of our lives and culture.

There's an opportunity cost of using these machines. I'd rather we use them to spot a tumor and save a life than earn an extra fraction of a percentage from stock trades.

It's especially tasteless to exploit the death for corporate gain.

It's a shame that the Run for the Roses has been degraded into a run for junk food. Next year, will the thoroughbreds run at Taco Bell Downs?

It's a bad idea that's bubbled around for a while. Our children should not be for sale.

It's deceptive because people think they're talking to a regular person when they're really talking to a shill, ... That's the whole point, that shills have to disclose that they're shills.

It's a neat window into how Washington works. It shows that, more and more, Washington is for sale.

It teaches children that ... they're for sale. They're just a bunch of sardines packed in a bus being sold to an advertiser.

They were taking advantage of the kindness of strangers to get the product in the hands of unsuspecting consumers,

Instead of corporate sponsorship, what they should do is band together and demand that tax cuts get sent back to schools across the country that are begging for funds,

If Yucca Mountain Johnny was depicted as an atom bomb, it would make a different point.