Convenience Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith Download Open image “Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.” — John Kenneth Galbraith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Convenience Enjoyment Foreign policy People Policy Politics
Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to:… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
The point is that in any country, including the United States, may be in the United States even more often than in any other… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy. — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation. — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Foreign policy is about trying to deliver for them the best possible economic benefits, the chance to travel, to study, to work, the opportunity… — Catherine Ashton Copy Share Image
Since taking office, President Obama has pursued a policy that focused more American resources and engagement in the Asia-Pacific, a region that will increasingly… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
There is a constant tug of war in Washington between the will of the people and the demands of special interest. — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
Foreign policy always has more force and punch when the nation speaks with one voice. To remain secure, prosperous, and free, the United States… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.” — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
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… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
“A phone call should be a convenience to the caller, not an inconvenience to the called.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians. — Sylvia Porter Copy Share Image
What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other - high fidelity or high convenience -… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image