Robert Orben Quotes
I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.
Orben, Robert. The Reader's Digest, vol. 115, The Reader's Digest Association, 1979, p. 105.
There are those who worry that we will run out of oil. However, as Khosla observes, the more immediate danger is the pollution of the planet’s air supply by burning fossil fuels like oil in large volumes.
After American troops were deployed to Saudi Arabia following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait:
Owner of one of the only 2 Mexican Television Networks. Pemex is the only oil company in the world, government or private, that loses money.
This is one of the few positions where she deviated from a hard right position. Most of the ultra rightists opposed regulation of any kind. However, there had been so many oil drilling and transportation disasters that she felt that the public had to be made more willing to drill new oil wells and government regulation would increase their trust level.
Robert Orben is an American professional comedy writer, although he also worked as a magician. He has written multiple books on comedy, mostly collections of gags and "one-liners" originally written for his newsletter, Orben's Current Comedy, and has also written books for magicians. Later, Orben moved into politics, and in 1973 he became head speechwriter to Vice President Gerald R. Ford.
