“Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.”
“Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".”
“There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.”
“Me? Oh, intellectually I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy penis, a lively intelligence, and the courage to say ‘shit!’ in front of a lady.”
“Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?”
“All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals”