Jerry Brown Quotes

The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn't do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person with a real V8 engine under his hood.

Barack Obama is probably one of the brightest in terms of sheer intelligence... also probably the best orator we've ever had as a president.

I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

A great soldier might be a baby politician.

You can’t govern a country on charisma.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

The skill of telemarketing does not necessarily translate into governing.

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.

President Reagan was a master communicator. In this particular speech he did a brilliant job moving between the stately role of U.S. President and a national eulogist. The pain of the event was etched on his face. In 4 short minutes, he addressed five different audiences. He spoke to the collective mourners, families of the fallen, NASA employees, school children, and even took a poke at Russia. He communicated comfort and patriotism within a very short timeframe. That's not easy to do.

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

(Obama's) a nice person, he's very articulate this is what's been used against him, but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.

Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.

Don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit to be president and commander-in-chief.

In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

[Donald Trump] doesn't deal well with criticism and blame and I don't think he could competently manage the office of the presidency given the criticism and challenge that you face every single day as the President of the United States.

Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.