What the world needs is a Governer with an Economics degree.

Neil Degrasse Tyson:
"You know what my concern is about Congress? I checked these numbers: 57% of the Senate, 38% of the House cite "law" as their profession. And...what happens in the courtroom? It doesn't go to [who's] right, it goes to who argues best...the entire profession is founded on who the best arguers are.

[ Bill Maher: "a courtroom is not about the truth, the theory is that each side argues their version and then the truth somehow emerges."]

That's the *premise*; however, the practice, which, for example, is bred in debating teams, where you know the subject, but you don't know which side you're going to be put on to argue. And so the act of arguing, and not agreeing, seems to be fundamental to that profession, and Congress is half that profession.

And I realized this when I was a kid. I was 12 and I said, 'I wonder what profession all these Senators and Congressmen were.' Law, law, law, law, businessman, law, law. And I said, 'There's no scientists? Where are the engineers? Where's the rest of life represented?' And so when I look at the conflicts, the argumentative conflicts, I just sit back and say, ya know, 'Can I buy an engineer, please? Or scientist?'"
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Doctors make up 5% of Congress.
 
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