Whatever you do in life surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

I have been surrounded by some of the smartest brightest most caring lawyers by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.

People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers instead of their conscience be their guide.

We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

When we think about online learning it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet even a guy as smart and insightful as that 30 years ago can say things like 'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

We're not that much smarter than we used to be even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

A man only learns in two ways one by reading and the other by association with smarter people.

I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.