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.

September 9, 2025

1 year ago

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other.

November 7, 2025

12 months ago

Europeans often ask and Americans do not often explain, how it happens that this great office [the presidency]

July 24, 2025

1 year ago

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

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