When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution, he established the Republican mantra that has not changed in all the years since. It was a clever bit of rhetoric, but it has turned too many Republicans into economic simpletons.

The point of doing TV is not to prove how clever you are, but to make other people realise how clever they are; and I think it's the same with books.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

Navigating the studio system has its own challenges, and, as a producer, you want to be astute and clever.

I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.

Too clever is dumb.

Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who first bought those Mercs and Beemers, while Ben & Jerry's (now owned by Unilever) brought a post-hippy sensibility to bear. Buyers saw the brand as saying 'all-natural, organic and Fairtrade.'

My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.