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Yes Prime Minister — Season 2
Sir Humphrey: "Prime Minister, I have had another word with her. To put it simply, Prime Minister, certain informal discussions took place involving a full and frank exchange of views, after which there arose a series of proposals which on examination proved to indicate certain promising lines of enquiry, which when pursuit led to the realization that the alternative courses of action might in fact, in certain circumstances, be susceptible of discreet modification, leading to a reappraisal of the original areas of difference and pointing a way to encouraging possibilities of compromise and cooperation which if bilaterally implemented with appropriate give and take on both sides might, if the climate were right, have a reasonable possibility at the end of the day of leading rightly or wrongly to a mutually satisfactory resolution."
Agnes Moorhouse: "Animals have rights too, you know. A battery chicken's life isn't worth living. Would you want to spend your life packed in with six hundred other desperate, squawking, smelly creatures, unable to breathe fresh air, unable to move, unable to stretch, unable to think?"
Sir Humphrey: "Bernard, if the right people don't have power, do you know what happens? The wrong people get it!"
Sir Humphrey: "But I am sure we agree on a fundamental basis of order and authority?"
Sir Humphrey: "Now, what shall I call you? Miss Moorhouse?"
Jim Hacker: "So they insult me and then expect me to give them more money?"
Jim Hacker: "Well, of course we do what we can. There are many calls on the public purse: inner cities, schools, hospitals, kidney machines..."
Bernard Woolley: "May I just clarify this? You think the National Theatre thinks that you are bluffing and the National Theatre thinks that you think that they are bluffing, whereas your bluff is to make the National Theatre think that you are bluffing when you are not bluffing, or if you are bluffing, your bluff is to make them think you are not bluffing. And their bluff must be that they're bluffing, because if they're not bluffing they're not bluffing."
Bernard Woolley: "I know, what about the death of a Cabinet colleague?"
Bernard Woolley: "Isn't it a bad idea to be associated with actors? I mean, their job is pretending to be what they're not and if you're seen with them, well, people might realise....."
Sir Humphrey: "And with respect, Prime Minister, I think that the DES will react with some caution to your rather novel proposal."
Jim Hacker: "What are you saying?"
Jim Hacker: "Math has become politicized: If it costs 5 billion pounds a year to maintain Britain's nuclear defences and 75 pounds a year to feed a starving African child, how many African children can be saved from starvation if the Ministry of Defence abandoned nuclear weapons?"
Sir Humphrey: "You just don't leave important matters in the hand of those clowns [local councils]. And as you've left education to them, one must assume that until now you've attached little importance to it."
Sir Humphrey: "Hello Bernard, I hear the Prime Minister wants to see me?"
Sir Humphrey: "So I gather, you denied that Mr. Halifax's phone had been bugged?"
Sir Humphrey: "The interview was over. We were just chatting, harmlessly."
Sir Humphrey: "Well perhaps you could advise me, Prime Minister. Particularly if the questions are aggressive."
Jim Hacker: "Well, anyway. Why are we bugging Hugh Halifax? Is he talking to the Russians?"
Jim Hacker: "Honesty always gives you the advantage of surprise in the House of Commons."