- Gus Hedges: We've got to downsize our sloppiness overload, Joy. Am I making myself clear?
- Joy Merryweather: Don't be silly, Gus.
- Gus Hedges: You see, I have a very important function in those meetings.
- Helen Cooper: Good. And that is?
- Gus Hedges: Well, I'm a sort of hands-off, eyes-on, overviewing, non-participatory, sort of hands-off... I'll get back to you on this... cunning bitch.
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- Damien Day: And out on a window ledge above me, fifteen stories high, a man is threatening to hurl himself onto the pavement if the council go ahead with his eviction order. The police have caught - no, no, no, it's all too dull, unless we get lucky and he jumps, and then we get the old entrails- on-the-pavement shot.
- Gus Hedges: There is just something I'd like to pop into your percolator, see if it comes out brown.
- Sally Smedley: Do not mention the name Jocelyn Webb to me ever again.
- Dave Charnley: What's the name we're not supposed to mention? Jocelyn Webb?
- Damien Day: Jocelyn Webb.
- Dave Charnley: Okay, Jocelyn Webb.
- Damien Day: No no, she said not to mention Jocelyn Webb.
- Dave Charnley: Oh, DON'T mention Jocelyn Webb.
- Damien Day: No, *don't* mention Jocelyn Webb.
- Henry Davenport: Look, woman... you are going to have to accept that this man who is very good at, quote, putting money where no-one can trace it, has put... our money... where no-one can trace it.
- Helen Cooper: [to Ken Livingstone] I wonder if you could possibly answer, without using the word web...