Unpalatable Quotes

We've discovered through reading the play that it's very relevant to now. It's about politics and about fame and about what you tell the general public, and how you present your ideas to make some very unpalatable things palatable. And we see that happening today. - Trevor Schmidt

We have frequently gone into denial when faced with unpleasant, unpalatable facts and now we are hearing from governments in Africa that they are not going into denial but that they are facing up to a horrendous situation forthwith. - Desmond Tutu

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Nor ,the food given by those who knowingly bear with paramours ,of their wives , and by those who in all matters are ruled by women, nor food ,given by men whose ten days of impurity on account of a death have not passed, nor that which is unpalatable. - Guru Nanak

It's pretty clear that Dan Rather faced a very unpalatable choice. ... His contract had at least two more years to run. [Should he] step down now before the outside investigative report, commissioned by CBS News expected in the next few weeks about his botching -- and the network's botching -- of that story about President Bush's National Guard service? Rather [decided] today that it would be better for him to step down on his own terms. - Howard Kurtz

But it may be too politically unpalatable in the U.S.. - Michael Dunne