"[S]ave those unsolicited faxes and make your displeasure known by legal action. The law is there for your protection, so use it." --  Shirley Rooker, Federal Trade Commission at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/audio/unsolicited_faxes.htm

"Some people believe with great fervor preposterous things that just  happen to coincide with their self-interest." - Coleman v. Commissioner, 791 F2d 68, 69 (7th Cir 1986) (Judge Frank Easterbrook).

“Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.”  (George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections, 1750).

"There are times when I just want to take a shotgun and, if I could shoot them through the phone, I'd do it."  Judge presiding over case of a man making hang-up calls. State v. Wagner, 608 N.E.2d 852, 80 Ohio App. 3d 88 (1992).

"Bin Ladin most hated in America, Telemarketers drop to #2." - Jay Leno's headline segment Oct. 29, 2001

"In all well-tempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eat up a fortune." Aristotle in Politics, Bk. 5, Ch. 8 (Jowett trans.)

"The goal of the DMA is to discover and to thwart possible government regulation."  Jonah Gitlitz, President of the DMA, DM News, October 22, 1990.

"Nothing in the Constitution compels us to listen to or view any unwanted communication, whatever its merit ... The ancient concept that 'a man's home is his castle' into which 'not even the king may enter' has lost none of its vitality ... We therefore categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another." Chief Justice Burger, U.S. Supreme Court, in Rowan v. U.S. Post Office Dept., 397 U.S. 728

"Avoiding doing business with people who send unsolicited faxes - regardless of the offer."  Federal Trade Commission suggestion, at  http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/domainalrt.htm

"You don't want your daughter to marry a telemarketer."  American Teleservices Association director Matt Mattingley, on the despised role telemarketing plays in the economy.  June 17th Newsweek, page 25.

“Telemarketers. The public hates them. It hates them even more than it hates France, low-flow toilets or ‘customer service.’”  Dave Barry, Constitutional Right to Annoy? Hello?, Reno Gazette-J., Aug. 31, 2003, at 9B.
 
"An amateur built the Arc. The Titanic was built by professionals."