Yes, Prime Minister (TV Series)
Official Secrets (1987)
Paul Eddington: James Hacker
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Quotes
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Bernard Woolley : Prime minister?
Jim Hacker : Yes, Bernard?
Bernard Woolley : Have you got a moment?
Jim Hacker : Yes, Bernard.
Bernard Woolley : Uh, I've got a problem.
Jim Hacker : Well, get on with it, Bernard.
Bernard Woolley : Uh, yes, Well it's just that, well, I've just been interviewed by the press.
Jim Hacker : You? You gave an interview?
Bernard Woolley : Yes, I'm afraid so.
Jim Hacker : Well, that's not your job.
Bernard Woolley : I know. I couldn't help it. I just - it just happened. They just trapped me into speaking to them.
Jim Hacker : What did you say?
Bernard Woolley : Nothing really.
Jim Hacker : Well, what's your problem?
Bernard Woolley : Well, they were asking me about you.
Jim Hacker : What about me?
Bernard Woolley : About you and the official secrets act.
Jim Hacker : And?
Bernard Woolley : Whether you were bound by it.
Jim Hacker : Of course I'm bound by it.
Bernard Woolley : Of course you are, But it, uh... it might not come out like that.
Jim Hacker : What do you mean?
Bernard Woolley : Well, thinking back on what I said, and what they said, and what I said you said, or 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...
Jim Hacker : Go on, Bernard,
Bernard Woolley : Well, I think I said you said you thought were above the law.
Jim Hacker : You said that?
Bernard Woolley : Well, not intentionally. That's just the way it came out. I'm terribly sorry. They were just asking all there questions!
Jim Hacker : Bernard, just because people ask you questions, what makes you think you have to answer them?
Bernard Woolley : I don't know.
Jim Hacker : You've never answered my questions just because I ask them.
Bernard Woolley : I know.
Jim Hacker : Half your lifetime in the civil service, an entire career devoted to avoiding questions, you suddenly decide to answer them today, and to the press! You must have flipped your lid, Bernard!
