John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

They think we are retarded. They are retarded.

I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.

I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.

Hard to believe there was ever a world leader as dumb as Donald Trump. Can't spell, can't read, has never managed anything approaching an original thought. His brain is like a radio playing at top volume, but between stations.

As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.

What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?

It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

My brother is really, really slow.

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

Children with Down Syndrome are not monsters, but uncommonly gentle human beings who can and do lead full lives.

...you have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove.

You're so stupid, Rose!

I still love her. But she's retarded, too.

I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

If you're a lame brain, then you're a lame brain. I can't help that.

If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day

But I've often said that if I had – I have two dogs – if I had two retarded children, I'd be a hero. And yet the dogs, which are pretty much the same thing. What? They're sweet. They're loving. They're kind, but they don't mentally advance at all. Dogs are like retarded children.

What is the politically correct term for 'retarded'?""I think the words you're fishing for are 'mentally disabled.' And no. I'm not mentally disabled.

We're so special, when you look in the dictionary under short bus, there's a group picture of us,'' Stevie Rae said, sounding weak but definately alive.