Richard Perle on his first meeting with future president Bush from Where The Right Went Wrong, by Patrick J. Buchanan p.42:
"The first time I met Bush 43, I knew he was different. Two things became clear. One, he didn't know very much. The other was he had confidence to ask questions that revealed he didn't know very much. Most people are reluctant to say when they don't know something, a word or a term they haven't heard before. Not him."