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Political Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- 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,…
- From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the…
- Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.
- The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
- In public administration good sense would seem to require the public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize the eventual…
- The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.
- Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches…
- These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy…
- Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or…
- Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.
- The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
- Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
- Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
- In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
- There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
- There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
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- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle