Robert Orben Quotes - Page 5

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• With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!

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  Luck, General Motors, Motor

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• 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.

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  Running, Term, Features

  "Is the Presidency Really So Fragile That Leaks Can Destroy It?" by Lou Cannon, The Washington Post, p. A3, January 17, 1983.

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• 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.

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  Communication, Views, People

  "Presidential politics should be more of a laughing matter" by Phil Gailey, St. Petersburg Times, p. 5D, June 12, 1988.

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

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  Witty, Opportunity, Missing

  "I Just Flew In From The White House - And, Boy, Are My Arms Tired". Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 26, 1986.

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

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  Children, Food, Cereal

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• 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.'

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  Giving, Promise, President

  "Americans laugh at their presidents -- not with them". William Lowther, The Toronto Star, September 21, 1986.

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• 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.

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  Food, Thinking, Vegetables

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

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  People, Political, Sense Of Humor

  "Humorless Election Year Is Nothing To Laugh At" by Claudia Buck, Sacramento Bee, p. A1, May 26, 1986.

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• President Ford used humor a great deal.

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  President, Used, Deals

  "Congress tries Ford's way - The late president's emphasis on compromise is recalled as the 110th Congress is set to convene". Gail Russell Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor, January 3, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Speech, Emotion, Honest

  "A Little Night Humor" by Leslie Berger, The Washington Post, C1, January 28, 1982.

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

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  Hate, People, Characteristics

  "A former president's gag order - Ford's symposium examines humor in the Oval Office". Dave Hoekstra, Chicago Sun-Times, September 28, 1986.

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• 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.

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  Real, Moving, People

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• 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.

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  Mean, Stuff, Arms

  "What's So Funny? Humor Comes Under Harsh Glare of Political Correctness". Press-Telegram, October 23, 1993.

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

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  Beach, Writing, Want

  "Think About It". Chicago Tribune, p. 3, June 25, 1995.

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