Political Quotes

“I just am uncomfortable with that kind of a chart, because what it seems to be saying is that Occidentals are smarter than Asians. It is kind of a racial bias to say that some groups, some races, some ethnic clusters are smarter than other people. I do not know what else we can draw from that. I went and looked up all the Nobel Prize winners in chemistry, physics, medicine, and physiology from 1981 to 1995, and, yes, the United States had 57 percent of them, but 43 percent were foreigners from all over the globe. Of course, it is a Swedish prize, given up in Stockholm by a group of Occidentals, I guess. I would not claim Asiatic bias, and I know they know where Japan is, but I would just hesitate saying one group of people are just smarter than another group. I know that just because someone is paranoid does not mean people are not after them. That could be true. But I have detected some awfully serious Japan bashing here, and I am surprised.”