“The hard part was living the contrast between being rich and being broke. It was like being smart, and waking up one day to find yourself dumb as a rock, but able to remember your former brains.”
“...because being a smart-ass is always preferable to being a dumb-ass.”
“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important. ”
“The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.”
“I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.”
“The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb.”