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 2, 2025

9 months ago

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

July 26, 2025

7 months ago

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they’d be forced into some other line of business.

May 19, 2025

9 months ago

Let me…warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

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