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Hacker: This doesn't say anything.
Bernard: Oh, thank you, Prime Minister.
Hacker: It's completely lacking impact.
Bernard: You're too kind, Prime Minster.
Bernard: What do you mean 'co-operate'?
Hacker: I mean obey my commands! That's what 'co-operate' means when you're Prime minister.
Sometimes one is forced to consider the possibility that affairs are being conducted in a manner....perhaps not entirely straightforward.
Foreign Office Honours: CMG - 'Call Me God'. KCMG - 'Kindly Call Me God'. GCMG - 'God Calls Me God'
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The Queen is inseparable from the Church of England. God is an optional extra.
The Official Secrets Act is not to protect secrets, it is to protect officials.
The Common Market: The Germans went in to purge themselves of genocide and apply for readmission to the human race.
The Common Market: the French went in to protect their inefficient farmers from commercial competition.
The Common Market: We went into it to screw the French by splitting them off from the Germans.
It is only totalitarian governments that suppress facts. In this country we simply take a democratic decision not to publish them.
'This would create a dangerous precedent'. Translation: 'If we do the right thing now, we might have to do the right thing again next time'
The perfect representative on a government committee is a disabled black Welsh woman trades unionist.
If civil servants do not fight for budgets they could end up with departments so small that even ministers could run them.
The Prime Minister doesn't want the truth, he wants something he can tell Parliament.
'The matter is under consideration' means we have lost the file. 'The matter is under active consideration' means we are trying to find it.
Why should we close a hospital because it has no patients? We don't disband the Army just because there isn't a war.
The surprising things about academics is not that they have their price, but how low that price is.
If any sentence in a television has more than 20 words, most people have forgotten how it began. Including the person speaking it.
Politicians are simple people, they like simple people, they like simple choices and clear guidance.
If a job's worth doing, it's worth delegating
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