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.

January 2, 2025

1 year ago

Politicians, like prostitutes, are held in contempt. But what man does not run to them when they need their services?

November 27, 2025

3 months ago

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

October 15, 2025

4 months ago

Nothing is so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

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