“When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.”

For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…

Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.

I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.

I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.

We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.

I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.

My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.

Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.

And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.

Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.

One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.

To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.

A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.

Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.

I don’t that they’re very keen to reduce the price of oil. The consumers are those who are the victims so I think that the producers, the governments, some of them, they’re enjoying the high revenue that they get.

We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.

It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.

I love market research because you really have an idea of what your consumers are looking for.

The family is also important to businessmen. It is one of the major purchasing groups of our consumer society.