Andy Rooney Quotes

You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

John isn't qualified to be vice president. He doesn't have the intellect. He doesn't have the stature. He doesn't have the honesty. He doesn't have the character that it takes.

Aside from the likability factor, I can criticize Hillary's politics all day long, but I never question her intelligence. I have never doubted that she is a strong, capable, smart leader.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

The public is too damned dumb to understand.

The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.

Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how

Most college students are not as smart as most college presidents.

Hillary Clinton is incredibly prepared and smart on all of the issues.

President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas.

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

My God, Donald Trump is unfit! He's ill-tempered, he's unsuited, he is not qualified, he's unsuited to be president.

I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president.

Being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

If you can read and don't, you're dumb.

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.