{"author":"Jeffrey Archer","author_id":"Jeffrey+Archer","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"..Each ministry has an allocation of money to spend on projects agreed to by the government. Every Secretary of State is acutely aware that his tenure of office maybe very short, so he picks out a major contract for himself from the many available. It's the one way to ensure a pension for life if the government is changed overnight or the minister simply loses his job.","author":"Jeffrey Archer","tags":["government","minister","money","pension","sarcasm","sarcastic-humor"],"id":18004,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Archer"},{"text":"Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.","author":"Jeffrey Archer","tags":["hope","moving","prison "],"id":19425,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Archer"},{"text":"While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.","author":"Jeffrey Archer","tags":["and-thereby-hangs-a-tale","book","short-story"],"id":65239,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Archer"},{"text":"One of the advantages of real worth is that menial tasks can always be left to someone else.","author":"Jeffrey Archer","tags":["archer","jeffrey","jeffrey-archer","wealth"],"id":67602,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Archer"},{"text":"I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.","author":"Jeffrey Archer","tags":["prison","leaving","think "],"id":162952,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Archer"},{"text":"He was becoming aware that there was no such thing as over-the-top with Lawrence Davenport, as long as you were talking to Lawrence Davenport about Lawrence Davenport.","author":"Jeffrey Archer","tags":["exaggeration","funny"],"id":167467,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Archer"},{"text":"When will the Home Office realize that when judges retire, not only are they sent home for the rest of their lives, but the only people they have left to judge are their innocent wives.''So what are you recommending?'asked Alex as they walked into the drawing room.'That judges should be shot on their seventieth birthday, and their wives granted a royal pardon and given their pensions by a grateful nation.''I may have come up with a more acceptable solution,' suggested Alex.'Like what? Making it legal to assist judges' wives to commit suicide?''Something a little less drastic,' said Alex.","author":"Jeffrey Archer","tags":["humour","judges","law"],"id":177604,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Archer"},{"text":"Some things never change.","author":"Jeffrey Archer","tags":["facts"],"id":213282,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Archer"},{"text":"I never advise friends to put money in anything,. Said Danny. 'It's a no-win situation - if they make a profit they forget that it was you who recommended it, and if they make a loss they never stop reminding you. My only advise would be not to gamble what you can't afford, and never to risk an amount that might cause you to lose a night's sleep.","author":"Jeffrey Archer","tags":["advise","afford","friends","gamble","investment","loss","money","recommend","risk","sleep","win"],"id":248880,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Archer"},{"text":"We all make mistakes but one has to move on.","author":"Jeffrey Archer","tags":["jeffrey-archer","mistakes"],"id":254996,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Archer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}