- The Public Servants - Browne: [Checking the backgrounds of the incoming Cabinet] I imagine you ran the names through the computer.
- The Public Servants - Fiennes: Yes. Three Communists, two Trotskyites and a queer.
- The Public Servants - Browne: That's par for the course in any Cabinet during my lifetime.
- The Public Servants - Fiennes: Plus a senior Minister who's screwing a young lady from Hampstead Labour Party.
- The Public Servants - Browne: I always assumed that was more or less why young ladies joined the Hampstead Labour Party.
- The Cabinet - Harry Perkins: Democracy takes time. Dictatorship is quicker but too many people get shot.
- The Cabinet - Harry Perkins: These people are the Opposition. It's their duty to plot against me. I plotted against them!