It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.
“I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.”
“We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.”