…I likes this exchange between John Major and Boris Yeltsin:
“JM: Well, Boris, in a word, how is Russia?
BY: Good.
JM: And in more than one word?
BY: Not good.”
Excerpt from: Lynn Barber’s review of A Life in Questions by Jeremy Paxman.
On communications being as simple as possible (but no simpler)…I likes this exchange between John Major and Boris Yeltsin:
“JM: Well, Boris, in a word, how is Russia?
BY: Good.
JM: And in more than one word?
BY: Not good.”
Excerpt from: Lynn Barber’s review of A Life in Questions by Jeremy Paxman.