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[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

Prime Minister, the Treasury doesn't work out what they need to spend and then think how to raise the money. They pitch for as much as they think they can get away with and then think what to spend it on.

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

Yes, I'm sure. Responsibility without power: the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

Watergate was different. It happened in America, Bernard!

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

Yes, I'm sure. Responsibility without power: the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

The public doesn’t know anything about wasting government money. We're the experts!

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

Of course not! They don't want them. Facts complicate things.

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

Do not mistake lethargy for strategy.

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

The purpose of minutes is not to record events, it is to protect people. Minutes are there to reflect what people thought they should have said, with the benefit of hindsight.

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

Gratitude is merely a lively expectation of favours to come.

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

Now, Minister, if you are going to promote women just because they're the best person for the job, you will create a lot of resentment throughout the whole of the Civil Service!

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

Minister... If people don't know what you're doing, they don't know what you're doing wrong.

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

You see, there's an implicit pact offered to every Minister by his senior officials. If the Minister will help us to implement the opposite policies to the one that he is pledged to, we will help him to pretend that he is in fact what he was going to do in his Manifesto.

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

If you do not want Cabinet to spend too long discussing something, make it last on the agenda before lunch

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

You don’t just give people what they want if it isn’t good for them. Do you give brandy to an alcoholic?

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

People do have funny ideas about the civil service. We’re just here to help formulate and implement your policies.

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

It's a contradiction in terms: you can be open or you can have government.

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

Civil servants have an extraordinary genius for wrapping up a simple idea to make it sound extremely complicated.

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

Minister, two basic rules of government: Never look into anything you don't have to. And never set up an enquiry unless you know in advance what its findings will be.

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

A career in politics is no preparation for government.

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

Civil servants are grown like oak trees, not mustard and cress.