"Overheard"

"Advertising executives have never understood public relations, otherwise they never would have approved the compensation packages at the publicly owned company to begin
with."

-- Gerald Schwartz, president & CEO of G.S. Schwartz & Co. Inc., responding to Interpublic's high senior executive salaries increases and the announcement by the
agency to give back options.

"Public Relations was a game. It was a fun game, but it was really just a game."

--Richard E. Cheney, former chairman of Hill & Knowlton, who is now a practicing psychoanalyst, quoted in the May 28 edition of The New York Times.