Presidential Intelligence Quotes

You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States.

The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

Probably the smartest president we've had in terms of I.Q. in the last 50 years was Jimmy Carter, and I think he is the worst president of the last 50 years.

George W. Bush was a little sub literate.

As the briefer, my job is to carry CIA's best information and best analysis to the president of the United States and make sure he understands it.

Anybody who is smart enough to be great, will be smart enough not to be President

The President's very shrewd

I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.

Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.

I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

I'm already suspicious of anyone who thinks he or she is smart enough to be president. You'd have to have some ego to believe that about yourself.

I love having a president who I think is smarter than I am.

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.

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.

The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.

Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000, they hassled George W Bush for not having it. They didn't realise what this book succinctly displays: that the president has something far more important - CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information and make discerning decisions.