John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
Quoted by Graham Allison , in A Conversation with Henry Kissinger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPqxISYxjcI
“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
Letter to John F. Kennedy (2 March 1962), printed in Galbraith's Ambassador's Journal (1969)
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Thomas Mann Germany and the Germans
Speech at the US Library of Congress (29 May 1945); published as "Germany and the Germans" ["Deutschland und die Deutschen"] in Die Neue Rundschau [Stockholm] (October 1945), p. 58, as translated by Helen T. Lowe-Porter
“Politics is the art of the possible.”
Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) German statesman, Chancellor of Germany
Franklin says this line in the HBO miniseries John Adams, but it is actually a quote of Otto von Bismarck.<br><br>(de) Die Politik ist die Lehre vom Möglichen. Interview (11 August 1867) with Friedrich Meyer von Waldeck of the St. Petersburgische Zeitung: Aus den Erinnerungen eines russischen Publicisten. 2. Ein Stündchen beim Kanzler des norddeutschen Bundes.<br><br>In: Die Gartenlaube (1876) p. 858 de.wikisource. Reprinted in Fürst Bismarck: neue Tischgespräche und Interviews, Vol. 1, p. 248 http://books.google.com/books?id=UpUBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA248&dq=%22die+Politik+ist+die+Lehre+vom+Möglichen%22<br>Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Otto von Bismarck / Quotes / 1860s <br class="br">Misattributed
“Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.”
Abel Stevens (1815–1897) American Methodist clergy
Madame de Staël http://books.google.com/books?id=i4wBAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Politeness+is+the+art+of+choosing+among+one%27s+real+thoughts%22&pg=PA79#v=onepage (1881)
“The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.”
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) American protestant theologian
As quoted in obituary '"Reinhold Niebuhr Is Dead; Protestant Theologian, 78" by Alden Whitman in The New York Times (2 June 1971) http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/books/niebuhr.pdf
Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970) American historian
Introduction, p. 16
The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R. (1955)
Peter Medawar (1915–1987) scientist
Review of Arthur Koestler’s The Act of Creation, in the New Statesman, 19 June 1964
1960s
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Il legame tra noi e la musica consiste nello scegliere ciò che ci piace e ci fa star bene, non ciò che ci viene imposto.
Source: prevale.net
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
En général, l’art du gouvernement consiste à prendre le plus d’argent qu’on peut à une grande partie des citoyens, pour le donner à une autre partie.
"Money" (1770)
Citas, Questions sur l'Encyclopédie (1770–1774)
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683) French politician
Quoted in: William Sharp McKechnie (1896). The State & the Individual: An Introduction to Political Science, with Special Reference to Socialistic and Individualistic Theories https://archive.org/details/stateindividuali00mckeuoft. p. 77