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For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Age: 97 †
Born: 1908
Born: October 15
Died: 2006
Died: April 29
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Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
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The years of the Great Depression were a superb time for economists because people not knowing what could be done or what should be done would always assume that maybe an economist had the answer. If you were just a lawyer in Washington, you were nobody. But if you were an economist, you might have the answer.
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Nothing so weakens government as persistent inflation.
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The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.
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Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.
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The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.
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Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.
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I never enjoyed writing a book more indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.
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A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
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A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
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Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.
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You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
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Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.
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Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
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