“Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.”
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I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.
