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.

August 7, 2025

7 months ago

Welfare became a term of opprobrium—a contentious, often vindictive area of political conflict

September 7, 2025

6 months ago

If you want to get along, go along.

October 20, 2025

4 months ago

Universal suffrage [i.e., votes for all adult men and women] is the government of a house by its nursery.

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