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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.

July 8, 2025

8 months ago

…see how sensitive the citizens become: they chafe impatiently at the least touch of authority and at length

October 14, 2025

4 months ago

Speak well, but speak little.

February 26, 2025

12 months ago

[On Winston Churchill] Restless, almost intolerably so, without capacity for sustained and unexcited labour, egotistical,

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