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.

April 2, 2025

9 months ago

[I occupy] the extreme right-wing edge of the left-wing movement.

April 28, 2025

8 months ago

We hope that the world will not narrow into a neighbourhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

May 15, 2025

7 months ago

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

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