John Kenneth Galbraith, an influential liberal economist dies at 97.

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A life long Democrat who advised many of our past Democratic presidents.

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I have one of his quotes as part of my signature. More quotes:

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
John Kenneth Galbraith

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
John Kenneth Galbraith

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
John Kenneth Galbraith

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
John Kenneth Galbraith

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith

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