- Bruce Paltrow: Television is what happens between the commercials. Television exists for the commercials.
- Mike Scully: To me, a watch dog group is usually just some guy who has a fax machine and a T.V. who just sits there all day waiting to be offended.
- David Milch: An advertiser doesn't mind going out on a limb--if they feel that there's a constituency for the limb.
- George Schlatter: We said things that were just not being said. We all were at that point pointing out that the emperor not only had on no clothes, but was not very generously endowed.
- Dick Smothers: They said, well, it's controversial. We like that. But we also want everybody to agree with you.