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

1 year ago

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

November 27, 2025

8 months ago

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

May 29, 2025

1 year ago

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

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