"Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear." ― John Kenneth Galbraith Topic(s): Power More From John Kenneth Galbraith "Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all." "Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory." "Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence." More In Power "The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy."― Tommy Chong "If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill – the human cost of public works. That’s what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people."― Robert Caro "Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter ‘found’ and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power."― Jerry Saltz