Political Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

13 Political quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

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Even in a modest set of 13 lines, Galbraith’s sharp critique of market excess and his advocacy for public policy shine through. It serves as a quick entry point for readers interested in his distinctive economic voice.

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The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

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Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

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Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.

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But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

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In public administration good sense would seem to require the public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to…

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The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

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Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be…

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From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The…

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Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with…

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Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of…

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These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the…

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I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of…

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Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means…

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“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.”

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Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

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If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

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Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

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While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.

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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in…

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Genius is a rising stock market.

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Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant…

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Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem…

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