"It's not clever to spend too much and there are competitions which allow that and I want to make quite sure this one is an exemplary one".
Both major parties have announced that they want to raise more than $200m for their soft-money accounts.The explosion in soft money has gone hand in hand with the invention of clever ways of spending it.
They exchange clever jibes and spend weekend nights walking up and down Park Avenue, dropping into "ad hoc parties" in parent-free apartments.
Think, for example, of the number of clever investors who spent much of the late 1990s scratching their heads and pulling their money out of inflated stockmarkets.
In often arid hearings, clever barristers have spent hours arguing over arcane points of constitutional conventions and freedom of information law.
It seems odd that someone so clever, who had spent so much of her life dealing with Christianity, should find out some fairly commonplace things about her former religion only through making a television programme.
He was also a clever businessman who spent eight years promoting his book on a rolling tour of Britain and bringing out a new edition each year, listing the names of subscribers and thus helping to focus the abolitionists' protests.
Meeting Britain's Tony Blair in 2005, shortly after he had torpedoed an EU budget deal, her opening gambit was: "Mr Blair, no apologies, just results".The not-so-good guysBlack marks go to Franco Frattini (justice), a clever man who spent far too much time politicking in his native Italy.
The amount of money that the clever townspeople have spent on water from our village when they thought they were paying for meat in the years since will never be known, but I'm sure it would be a shockingly high figure.
What the pocket-wisdom smart-asses who quote that to you every time you complain about airborne death particles and ATMs that charge you three dollars to access your own money don't realize, is that while Johnson was a clever guy, he spent his life afflicted with Tourette's syndrome.
