Yes Minister (TV Series)
A Question of Loyalty (1981)
Paul Eddington: James Hacker
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Quotes
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[On the 1938 Munich Agreement]
Sir Humphrey Appleby : It occurred before certain important facts were known, and couldn't happen again.
James Hacker : What important facts?
Sir Humphrey Appleby : Well, that Hitler wanted to conquer Europe.
James Hacker : I thought that everybody knew that.
Sir Humphrey Appleby : Not the Foreign Office.
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James Hacker : Why is it that Ministers can't ever go anywhere without their briefs?
Bernard Woolley : It's in case they get caught with their trousers down.
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James Hacker : You said yourself how important these select committees are. I cannot be seen to mislead them.
Sir Humphrey Appleby : You will not be SEEN to mislead them.
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James Hacker : The committee isn't the least bit interested in the nature of truth. They're all MPs!
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James Hacker : I'm made to look like I've wasted all the money that everybody else has been saving.
Sir Humphrey Appleby : Oh, minister. Nobody else have been saving anything. You ought to know that by now!
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James Hacker : I have backed you up, Humphrey, in just the same way that you have always backed me up. Isn't that so?
[Sir Humphrey is so shocked he can only utter some unintelligible words]
James Hacker : [to Sir Humphrey] Did you say something?
Bernard Woolley : I think he said "Yes, minister".
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Sir Humphrey Appleby : A tiny mistake. The sort that anyone can make.
James Hacker : A tiny mistake? 75,000 pounds? Give me an example of a big mistake.
Sir Humphrey Appleby : Letting people find out about it.
