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.

March 13, 2025

2 years ago

Those who exercise power and determine policy are generally men whose minds have been formed by events twenty or thirty years before.

April 9, 2025

2 years ago

…it is a denial of the entire experience of the twentieth century

February 25, 2025

2 years ago

I am a revolutionist by birth, reading and principle. I am always on the side of the revolutionists because there

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