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John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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John Kenneth Galbraith is saying that politics often involves making decisions where none of the options are truly good or easy to accept. Instead of simply achieving what can be done, politicians must pick the lesser of two bad outcomes.

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