Yes, I know this is a wheel that's been invented many times before, but I couldn't bring myself to pull out something as complex as HTML::Parser for a little task like this. N.B. that this will probably break badly on broken HTML. (Updated: now parses <foo bar='"'>, etc.) (Update #2: per chipmunk's point about backreferences not working inside character classes, I've split the middle regex into two.)
#With $_ holding the HTML text...

#Pull comments.  Note that
# `<!-- foo="--> bar <--" -->' will NOT strip ` bar '.
# I claim this to be a feature.
s/<!--.*?-->//g;

#for comments like <blah blah="blah" blah='blah' ... >,
# strip from after the start of the tag  up to the end 
# of the first quoted string, repeatedly, ending in either
# `<>' or `<no quotes here>'
# Update: Now handles either quote char, with the other
#        possibly within the quoted string.
while (   s/<(?!--)[^'">]*"[^"]*"/</g 
       or s/<(?!--)[^'">]*'[^']*'/</g) {};


#strip HTML tags without quotes in them... which should be
# the only kind that we have left.
s/<(?!--)[^">]*>//g;
print $_;

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