Yes Minister (1980–1984)
Derek Fowlds: Bernard Woolley
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Quotes
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Bernard Woolley : It makes me feel rather downcast. If it's our job to implement Government Policies, shouldn't we believe in them?
Sir Humphrey Appleby : What an extraordinary thing to say.
Bernard Woolley : Why?
Sir Humphrey Appleby : Bernard, I have served 11 Governments in the last 30 years, if I believed in all their policies, I would have been passionately commited to keeping out of the Common Market and passionately committed to going into it, I would've been utterly convinced of the rightness of Nationalising Steel, and of denationalising it, and renationalising it. On Capital Punishment I would have been a fervent retentionist and an ardent Abolitionist, I would have been a Keynesian and a Friedmanite, a Grammar School Destroyer and Preserver, a Nationalisation Freak and a Privatisation Maniac, but above all, I would have been a stark, staring, raving Schizophrenic!
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Bernard Woolley : That's one of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I give confidential security briefings. You leak. He has been charged under section 2a of the Official Secrets Act.
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Bernard Woolley : Where's W?
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Bernard Woolley : We knew that there would be a Minister, Minister.
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James Hacker : He'll be black-balled!
Bernard Woolley : He already is!
