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.

June 23, 2025

1 year ago

About one-fifth of the people are against everything all of the time.

November 24, 2025

8 months ago

America is still a government of the naïve, by the naïve, and for the naïve.

January 14, 2025

2 years ago

[On the popularity of Margaret Thatcher] The further you got from Britain, the more admired you found she was.

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