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Office politics take precedence over national issues when Sir Humphrey and Bernard fall out with each other after Jim tries to restrict Sir Humphrey's access to No 10.
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Nigel Hawthorne
Sir Humphrey Appleby
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Paul Eddington
Rt Hon James Hacker
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Derek Fowlds
Bernard Woolley
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ADD QUOTES- (The Prime Minister is attempting to repeat one of Humphrey's explanations to Dorothy) Jim Hacker: Well, if people came to see people who people didn't know people were coming... That is, if people saw people coming before people saw them seeing people, people would see people. The whole ship would come off the rails. Dorothy Wainwright: Did you work all that out for yourself? Edit
- Sir Frank Gordon: Ah, when I say not overstretched, I was of course talking in a sense of total cumulative loading taken globally, rather than in respect of certain individual and essentially anomalous responsibilities that, logically speaking, are not consonant or harmonious with the broad spectrum of intermeshing and inseparable function, and could indeed be said to place an excessive and supererogative burden on the office, where considered in relation to the comparatively exiguous advantages of their overall centralisation. Jim Hacker: You could do part of Humphrey's job! Edit
- Jim Hacker: People can wait in the lobby or in the state room. Sir Humphrey: Some people. But some people must wait where other people cannot see the people who are waiting. And people who arrive before other people, must wait where they cannot see other people who arrive after them being admitted before them. And people who come in from outside must wait where they cannot see the people from inside coming in to tell you what the people from outside are going to see you about. And people who arrive when you are with people that are not suppose to know you have seen, must wait somewhere until the people you are not suppose to have seen, have seen you. Jim Hacker: Sounds like an entire Whitehall farce going on. Edit
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