[PW] ?Galbraith quote

[Michael J. Lowrey]

On 3/14/07, John Henderson <jhenderson at ithaca.edu> wrote:
> The Galbraith Score has recently appeared among the blogs in light of
> speculation whether or not Attorney General Gonzales will resign. It
> is based on a supposed quotation of John Kenneth Galbraith: "Anyone
> who says four times that he won't resign, will" I can't find the
> quote in any of our favorite quotation books, and the earliest I can
> find it online is only as far back as December 2004 in
> crookedtimber.org where the blogger passes on "a fantastic old quote
> from JK Galbraith." It does not show up in jstor, lexis-nexis, or
> GoogleBooks. Can any of you authenticate it?

Variations of it show up on GoogleBooks in "Oxymoronica" and in "The
Mammoth Book Of Zingers, Quips, And One-liners: Over 10,000 Gems of
Wit and Wisdom..."


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