Mike Huckabee Quotes

I'm not some schmuck they just hired and threw down in the Performance Center and gave him an entrance or anything that like. I've been around enough and have enough experience; I know what I'm doing pretty much.

It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.

Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she's not a beautiful woman and she's getting older. But you're saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she's talking about.

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'

If you're talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you're talking about football, I don't have to take a back seat to anyone.

You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

Usually people just hire me.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Well, I'm a professional.

Trust one who has tried.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.

Oh dear. Oh dear. Why do all these old gentlemen feel so confident that they understand foreign affairs.

Believe one who has proved it. Believe the expert.

… no one can have lived in the world without observing that most people, when in prosperity, are so over-brimming with wisdom (however inexperienced they may be), that they take every offer of advice as a personal insult, whereas in adversity they know not where to turn, but beg and pray for counsel from every passer-by.

I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.

When you pretend to be an authority on everything, it forces your subordinates to defer to your opinion - which may not be the most informed in the room. If you have humility concerning the gaps in your experience or ability, it allows others to shine.

You can't say when you are 25 years old that you know everything. You don't.

When I was a player, and since then, we have never been so snobbish as to go into a tournament saying, 'We will win this World Cup.' We aren't like that.

It might come off as cocky, but I've been through a lot in my life.

I'm a director! I don't work with no amateurs!

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

Dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you.