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Power to the People (Yes, Prime Minister) Quotes

Power to the People (Yes, Prime Minister) is a television show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Power to the People completed its run in 1970.

It features Sydney Lotterby as producer.

Power to the People (Yes, Prime Minister) Quotes

  • (Unnamed) "You know that Agnes Moorhouse woman?"
  • (Unnamed) "Yes."
  • (Unnamed) "I told Humphrey to have a word with her."
  • (Unnamed) "That sounds like an interesting experiment."
  • (Unnamed) "He says it went quite well, but he didn't want to talk about it very much and he had four whiskeys in ten minutes."
  • (Unnamed) "Animals have rights too, you know. A battery chicken's life isn't worth living. Would you want to spend your life packed in with six hundred other desperate, squawking, smelly creatures, unable to breathe fresh air, unable to move, unable to stretch, unable to think?"
  • (Unnamed) "Certainly not. That's why I never stood for parliament."
  • (Unnamed) "And I shall be the great reformer. Hacker's Reform Bill. I shall introduce it myself. 'The power of this country does not lie in offices and institutions, it lies in the stout hearts and strong wills of the yeomen of Britain --"
  • (Unnamed) "Women have the vote too."
  • (Unnamed) "The yeowomen of Britain -- yeopersons -- yeopeople -- No, the people of this island race, on their broad and wise shoulders --"
  • (Unnamed) "And you can't have wise shoulders."
  • (Unnamed) "On their broad shoulders, wise hearts, heads, on their heads lies our destiny. We must give back power to the people.' And I shall be the one to introduce this, um -- What shall I call this new scheme?"
  • (Unnamed) "Democracy?"
  • (Unnamed) "To put it simply, Prime Minister, certain informal discussions took place, involving a full and frank exchange of views, out of which there arose a series of proposals which on examination proved to indicate certain promising lines of enquiry which when pursued led to the realization that the alternative courses of action might in fact, in certain circumstances, be susceptible of discreet modification, leading to a reappraisal of the original areas of difference and pointing the way to encouraging possibilities of compromise and cooperation which if bilaterally implemented with appropriate give and take on both sides might if the climate were right have a reasonable possibility at the end of the day of leading, rightly or wrongly, to a mutually satisfactory resolution."
  • (Unnamed) "What the hell are you talking about?"
  • (Unnamed) "We did a deal."

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