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May 8, 2025

Diplomacy is about surviving till the next century—politics is about surviving till Friday afternoon.

Jonathan Lyn (1943- ) and Antony Jay (1930–2016) British writers, Yes, Prime Minister, vol. 1 (1986), Jay p.235

What your batting average on this score?

Yes, Friday afternoon, when you can get out of town after quietly issuing some bad news press release.

April 23, 2025

8 months ago

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

April 22, 2025

8 months ago

Politics demands a certain rhetoric. It does not demand moral action to fit the rhetoric.

February 25, 2025

10 months ago

I am a revolutionist by birth, reading and principle. I am always on the side of the revolutionists because there

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