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


Letter to John F. Kennedy (1962-03-02), printed in Galbraith's Ambassador's Journal (1969)

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in 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.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in 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.