"The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top."

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The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it?an additional tactic in this strategy of defense?is to assert that Winston Churchill once sponsored the particular idea. If one is challenged, a sufficiently careful investigation will show that he did.

— John Kenneth Galbraith