John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

There's very little reason in politics these days.

Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes... you just know.

People don't like politicians.

You never know what'll happen in politics.

A week is a long time in politics.

Forty-eight hours is a long time in politics

God only knows just how much I'm going to do, or not going to do.

Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.

I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.

Certainty in politics is never a given.

People don't trust party leaders.

I didn't want to come to L.A. without a plan. I was already dealing with my own indecision in Atlanta, so I didn't want to pick up and relocate and do the same thing in a different area.

Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move.

I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.

Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose?

Where doubt is, there faith has no power.

I don't think there's ever a moment when you can actually say, "I found it." Even when you think you did, the next moment something happens and it can drift away. It's about the evolution of love and faith. It constantly surprises us.

Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What’s left to say? Suspect too much sweet-talk but never close your mind. It was a fortunate wind that blew me here. I leave half-ready to believe that a crippled trust might walk and the half-true rhyme is love.

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

Can I believe in that God too?