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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.

September 26, 2025

5 months ago

It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below.

October 27, 2025

4 months ago

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by which they have once won office.

November 30, 2025

3 months ago

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.

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