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United Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication.…
- The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or…
- 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…
- Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907,…
- We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking…
- Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.
- More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
- In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
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- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
- If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming… — Jane Austen
- What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of… — Teresa of Avila
- We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the… — Dan Aykroyd
- The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet