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.

October 21, 2025

1 year ago

The revolutionary spirit is mightily convenient in this: that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

October 8, 2025

1 year ago

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room.

November 27, 2025

11 months ago

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

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