Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.
John Kenneth GalbraithThe drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
John Kenneth GalbraithTo see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.
John Kenneth GalbraithFor the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.
John Kenneth GalbraithMeetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for the prestige which accrues to the man who presides over meetings, and this leads them to convoke assemblages over which they can preside. Finally, there is the meeting which is called not because there is business to be done, but because it is necessary to create the impression that business is being done. Such meetings are more than a substitute for action. They are widely regarded as action.
John Kenneth Galbraith