“People don't know how great you are. People don't know how smart you are. These are the smart people. These are the smart people. These are really the smart people. And they never like to say it, but I say it. And I'm a smart person. These are the smart. We have the smartest people. We have the smartest people. And they know it. Some say it, but they hate to say it. But we have the smartest people.”

Esquire, January 2010, p. 78

2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)

Source: Every Day

I considered this. “I think I come from the everybody’s smart category. But they don’t apply their smarts to… larger picture pursuits. That includes me.”
JPod (2006)

speech at Values Voter Summit http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81256_Page4.html,
Context: We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country. We will never have the elite, smart people on our side, because they believe they should have the power to tell you what to do. So our colleges and universities, they're not going to be on our side.

Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed)

JPod (2006)