Clay A. Johnson Quotes & Sayings

My plea to you is to start sweating the small stuff at the expense of some of the big stuff. Washington isn't the land of vast, radical changes, it's a battleship waiting to be nudged in the right direction. Let the legions of information-obese fight on the front lines, and join me in nudging the small nuts and bolts that hold the ship together. — Clay A. Johnson

Transparency isn't a replacement for integrity and honesty; it's an infrastructural tool that allows for those attributes to occur - but only if the public is willing act upon the information that they receive as a result of transparency in a conscious, deliberate way. — Clay A. Johnson

Nobody has a maximum amount of storage for fat, and it's unlikely that we have a maximum capacity for knowledge. — Clay A. Johnson

Our connection to the teachings of Socrates, for instance, is through the written word of Plato, because Socrates was vehemently against the written word. Socrates thought that the book would do terrible things to our memories. — Clay A. Johnson

Instead of dying from the cold of winter, we find death in cholesterol. — Clay A. Johnson

Chances are, if we can't laugh at something, we can't think rationally about it. — Clay A. Johnson

The number of diet books available to the public correlates to obesity rates. — Clay A. Johnson

According to a 2009 Public Policy Polling survey, 39% of people in the United States believe that the United States government should stay out of Medicare (a government-run program). Ten percent of people are not certain or do not believe that Hawaii is a state, and 7% believe that Barack Obama is from France.[51] — Clay A. Johnson

you're worried about Congress being manipulated by money, the United States House of Representatives started filing their campaign contributions electronically a decade ago, yet the United States Senate refuses to do so. Year after year a bill is proposed, and one way or another it ends up suffocating and dying by the end of the session. This results in a half-million dollar expense to the taxpayer as the Federal Election Commission takes nearly three months to type in, from the various campaigns' paper reports, every campaign contribution that every Senate campaign receives. And as a result, we cannot see how a member of the United States Senate is being influenced by money until long after the time when the relevance of that information has passed. — Clay A. Johnson