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.

March 13, 2025

10 months ago

Those who exercise power and determine policy are generally men whose minds have been formed by events twenty or thirty years before.

February 18, 2025

10 months ago

I may be bland, but bland works.

January 14, 2025

11 months ago

[On the popularity of Margaret Thatcher] The further you got from Britain, the more admired you found she was.

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