"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
― John Kenneth Galbraith
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― John Kenneth Galbraith
More From John Kenneth Galbraith
- "Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."
- "Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."
- "The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself."
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- "Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them."― Thomas Kinkade
- "Time is the devourer of all things."― Ovid
- "The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment."― Lyman Trumbull