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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."
"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."
"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."
"Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments."
"We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes."
"Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!'"
"Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake."
"I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough."
Explore more quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
"Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all."
"In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability."
"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."
"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."
"Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
"Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects."
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