A Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.

P. J. O'Rourke

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P. J. O'Rourke
American - Comedian
Born: November 14, 1947

On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.

Ted Cruz

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

Estelle Morris

We need the breast and the brightest to- umm the best and the brightest.

Edward Kennedy

Goldman Sachs was fundamentally responsible for the crash of 2008, but by that time its former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry 'Hank' Paulson, had been installed as US Treasury Secretary to begin the bank bail out policy, with enormous benefit to Goldman Sachs, in the closing weeks of the Bush administration. Goldman Sachs was also instrumental in the collapse of the economy in Greece that started the 'euro panic' that later engulfed Ireland.

David Icke

I've nothing against Goldman Sachs. But Goldman Sachs isn't an investment bank. Goldman Sachs is a hedge fund. It's bigger than any hedge fund. It's more leveraged, to the power of three or five, than any hedge fund.

Nouriel Roubini

We need the best and the brightest to go into public service.

Valerie Plame

Because I wrote a book about Goldman Sachs. And I know that, from talking to people at Goldman Sachs, that Trump is the poster child for the kind of client they don't want to do business with, mainly because he would borrow all this money from Wall Street to build his casinos, and then didn't pay it back.

William D. Cohan

The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing.

Michael Moore

I'm not the best. I'm not the brightest, but we all have our problems.

Bernard Tomic

Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest.

David Maister

I play the best and have the most fun when the stage is brightest.

Jayson Tatum

Tonight we celebrate Hollywood's best and whitest, sorry... brightest.

Neil Patrick Harris

Goldman Sachs was one of those companies whose illegal activity helped destroy our economy and ruin the lives of millions of Americans. But this is what a rigged economy and a corrupt campaign finance system and a broken criminal justice is about. These guys are so powerful that not one of the executives on Wall Street has been charged with anything after paying, in this case of Goldman Sachs, a $5 billion fine.