Quotes Library

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.

October 17, 2025

4 months ago

[When asked what he had done during the French Revolution] I survived.

March 9, 2025

12 months ago

Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free

March 16, 2025

11 months ago

Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.

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