ANTONY JAY

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.

The precise correlation between the information you communicated, and the facts insofar as they can be determined and demonstrated is such as to cause epistemological problems, of sufficient magnitude as to lay upon the logical and semantic resources of the English language a heavier burden than they can reasonably be expected to bear.

The Official Secrets Act is not to protect secrets. It’s to protected officials.

The fact that you needed to know was not known at the time that the now known need to know, was known. Therefore, those that needed to advise and inform the Home Secretary perhaps felt the information he needed as to whether to inform the highest authority of the known information was not yet known and therefore there was no authority for the authority to be informed because the need to know was not, at that time, known or needed.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles - people nearly always pick a problem their own size, and ignore or leave to others the bigger or smaller ones.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

The fact that you needed to know was not known at the time that the now known need to know, was known. Therefore, those that needed to advise and inform the Home Secretary perhaps felt the information he needed as to whether to inform the highest authority of the known information was not yet known and therefore there was no authority for the authority to be informed because the need to know was not, at that time, known or needed.

The precise correlation between the information you communicated, and the facts insofar as they can be determined and demonstrated is such as to cause epistemological problems, of sufficient magnitude as to lay upon the logical and semantic resources of the English language a heavier burden than they can reasonably be expected to bear.

The Official Secrets Act is not to protect secrets. It’s to protected officials.

It’s only the urban middle class who is interested in the preservation of the countryside because they don’t have to live in it.

The less you want to do about something, the more you have to talk about it

In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles - people nearly always pick a problem their own size, and ignore or leave to others the bigger or smaller ones.