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Government Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- Nothing so weakens a government as inflation.
- In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very good time, the…
- The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and…
- One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their…
- In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities, because…
- 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 somebody who says,…
- When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then…
- Those who yearn for the end of capitalism should pray for government by men who believe that all positive action is inimical to what they…
- Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
- Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
- You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
- It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
- If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose…
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- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
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- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida