"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it." - Richard Lamm "From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it." - Katharine Whitehorn "Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?" - Calvin's Dad (from Calvin and Hobbes) "Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas." - Johnny Carson "I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph." - Shirley Temple