Famous Quotes

"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory."

John Kenneth Galbraith on Politics

More quotes about Politics

• "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

  John F. Kennedy on Politics

• "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

  Mark Twain on Politics

• "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

  Plato on Politics

• "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

  Milton Friedman on Politics

• "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

  Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

• "By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."

• "In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."

• "Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

• "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

• "There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."