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Humphrey: Make him something important. What's he interested in? Television?
Hacker: Hasn't even got a set.
Humphrey: Fine, make him a governor of the BBC. |
| (from The Grand Design) |
| *** |
Humphrey: Nuclear weapons are there to make people believe that Britain is defended.
Bernard: The Russians?
Humphrey: No, not the Russians, the British. The Russians know it's not. |
| (from The Ministerial Broadcast) |
| *** |
Humphrey (about Hacker): He's got no. 10, a salary, a pension for life. What more can he want?
Bernard: I think he wants to govern Britain.
Humphrey: Well stop him, Bernard! |
| (from The Ministerial Broadcast) |
| *** |
Humphrey: Prime Minister I must strongly protest in the strongest possible terms, my profound opposition to a newly instituted practice which imposes severe and intolerable restrictions upon the ingress and egress of senior members of the hierarchy and which will in all probability, should the current deplorable innovation be perpetuated, precipitate a constriction of the channels of communication and culminate in a condition of organisational atrophy and administrative paralysis which will render effectively impossible the coherent and coordinated discharge of the function of government within her Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Hacker: You mean you've lost your key? |
| (from The Key) |
| *** |
Hacker: May I clarify something? Who knows the Foreign Office secrets, apart from the Foreign Office?
Bernard: That's easy - only the Kremlin. |
| (from A Victory For Democracy) |
| *** |
Hacker: Is there anyone in the church who doesn't believe in God?
Humphrey: Yes, most of the Bishops. |
| (from The Bishop's Gambit) |
| *** |
Head of MI5: There was a lot of ridiculous press specualtion at the time, suggesting Halstead was a spy. Totally unfounded of course.
Hacker: But he was a spy.
Head of MI5: But they didn't know that! |
| (from One Of Us) |
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