“If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.”

Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

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)

Oui interview (1979)
Context: The richest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or rich.… That leaves me making music. But we can’t talk about that.

2008 FIRST Robotics Championship, Georgia Dome Atlanta, Georgia http://www.cyberfalcons.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/3710-Sponsorship-Package-11-12.pdf
Post presidency

Variant translation: The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

JPod (2006)