"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."
― John Kenneth Galbraith
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Government
― John Kenneth Galbraith
More From John Kenneth Galbraith
- "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
- "Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."
- "Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence."
More In Government
- "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."― Thomas Jefferson
- "The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."― George Washington
- "The Leader of the Opposition’s constitutional obligation – the obligation to Parliament – it’s the reason we did the merger! – is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government."― Stephen Harper