Author: John Kenneth Galbraith

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

(1908 – 2006) Canadian-American economist
Government Places

Meetings are a great trap; however, they are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.

(1908 – 2006) Canadian-American economist
Work

Trickle-down theory – the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

(1908 – 2006) Canadian-American economist
Government

It's great to be with Bill Buckley because you don't have to think; he takes a position and you automatically take the opposite and you know you are right.

(1908 – 2006) Canadian-American economist
Beliefs Insults Opinion

[Politics] consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

(1908 – 2006) Canadian-American economist
Government Politics