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Yes Prime Minister — Season 2
Sir Humphrey: "It is characteristic of all committee discussions and decisions that every member has a vivid recollection of them and that every member's recollection of them differs violently from every other member's recollection. Consequently, we accept the convention that the official decisions are those and only those which have been officially recorded in the minutes by the Officials, from which it emerges with an elegant inevitability that any decision which has been officially reached will have been officially recorded in the minutes by the Officials and any decision which is not recorded in the minutes is not been officially reached even if one or more members believe they can recollect it, so in this particular case, if the decision had been officially reached it would have been officially recorded in the minutes by the Officials. And it isn't so it wasn't."
Sir Humphrey: "Now go in there and inform me of their conversation."
Sir Arnold: "I presume the Prime Minister is in favour of this scheme because it will reduce unemployment?"
Sir Arnold: "Are you suggesting that I give confidential information to the press?"
Sir Humphrey: "Why do they want your job [PM] so much?"
Bernard Woolley: "Well, thinking back on what I said, and what they said, and what I said you said, and what they may say I said you said, or what they may have thought I said I thought you thought, well, they may say I said I thought you said you thought..."
Sir Humphrey: "It's up to you, Bernard, what do you want?"
Sir Humphrey: "The purpose of minutes is not to record events, it is to protect people."
Jim Hacker: "Now about nailing that leak..."
Jim Hacker: "I want this traced at once. It must have been someone at yesterday's meeting."
Bernard Woolley (on the phone): "No, we can't have alphabetical seating in the Abbey: you would have Iraq and Iran next to each other. Plus Israel and Jordan, all sitting in the same pew. We would be in danger of starting World War III."
French Ambassador: "Prime Minister, I cannot tell you the gravity of the affront my Government would feel if Her Majesty were to refuse a gift in exchange for the one our President accepted from her. I feel it would be interpreted as both a national and a personal affront to the President and his wife."
Jim Hacker: "Plenty of room for television cameras, won't there?"
Bernard Woolley (on the phone): "Yes, we will want simultaneous translators. ... No, not when the PM meets the leaders of the English speaking nations. ... Yes, the English speaking nations can be said to include the United States. With a certain generosity of spirit."
Jim Hacker: "Don't we ever get our own way with the French?"
Jim Hacker: "Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers:
Sir Humphrey: "When you wish to suggest that somebody is perhaps not the ideal choice..."
Jim Hacker: "As you know, I have got to appoint a new Governor of the Bank of England. I'd welcome your views."
Jim Hacker: "Why should you be adamant that I should allow another cover-up? What's in it for you?"
Sir Humphrey: "Tax fiddles?"