Quotes by Robert Orben

“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, ...”

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

“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 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.”

“The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.”

“Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.”

“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.”

“Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery it's a pen that scratches.”

“There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs, there'd be no place to put it all.”

“The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world.”

“More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.”