All crises have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.
John Kenneth GalbraithThe ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.
John Kenneth GalbraithForeign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.
John Kenneth GalbraithHermann 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 Galbraith