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.

April 4, 2025

2 years ago

To criticize one’s country is to do it a service…Criticism, in short, is more than a right

June 8, 2025

1 year ago

Democracy is the process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

August 16, 2026

2 months ago

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

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