Walter E. Williams Quotes

Scientific concepts sometimes elude the vast majority of elected officials.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.

There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead.

The issue we are reluctant to talk about is even more sensitive than condoms. The issue - and I will try to be tasteful here - is that sometimes it seems like maybe the president of the United States is kind of dumb. If you get what I mean. What I mean is, I am not totally confident that the president would get what I mean, unless several aides explained it to him. And even then, he might forget.

I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director.

Imagine me going around with a pot belly. It would mean political ruin.

Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis.

Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.

What does an actor know about politics?

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.

The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.

Media scrutiny is a great trademark of the American political arena.

Honestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.

...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of what I liked to do privately, which was to dress up.

Those people on the other side, they will answer any question about climate change by saying, 'I’m not a scientist.' Well, I’m not a scientist either. I’m just a grandmother with two eyes and a brain.

Playing the president is interesting because, unlike a lot of different roles, people pay so close attention to who the president is, all of them, everybody's got an opinion about the president.

It almost seems like anyone who doesn't seem political in any way is at an advantage. It's almost like anti-politics. A stage where anyone who acts - and it is an act - as if they have nothing to do with the way that daily politics works is lauded as some kind of superstar human being.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.

I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.

I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.