Robert Orben Quotes - Page 5

I'd be surprised if Ronald Reagan doesn't run again. To us it's a second term. To him it's a double feature.

Humor is a marvelous communications tool, as Reagan has demonstrated so well. He has weathered many a storm that others might not have. With Reagan, people just say, 'There he goes again.' A sense of humor allows a president to back off a little from the tensions of the moment and take a calmer view of things.

Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.

The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.

I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none. Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.

President Ford used humor a great deal.

THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin.

Humor gives presidents the chance to be seen as warm, relaxed persons. Humor reaches out and puts its arm around the listener and says, 'I am one of you, I understand,' and implicitly it promises, 'I will do something about your problems.'

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

As much as we admire all the characteristics of a Ronald Reagan, as soon as something goes wrong, people will hate those same characteristics.

You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.

Nowadays, you cannot be a very Effective political figure without Having a demonstrable sense of humor. People take to it.