- Vasili: During the coup, he lay down in front of a row of tanks. In my country he is regarded as... what is the word?
- Dave Charnley: Hero?
- Vasili: No - lunatic!
- Sally Smedley: I see it is Henry yet again who is interviewing Douglas Hurd. Why can't I interview him?
- Alex Pates: Because your interview technique is too coy.
- Sally Smedley: Too coy? What do you mean?
- Henry Davenport: She means that you make Sue Lawley look like the Gestapo.
- Dave Charnley: Bit of a softie, your boss then, is he?
- Vasili: Not to work for he isn't. Terrible temper. He explodes more frequently than Soviet power station.
- Vasili: He says your beauty illuminates the room like the Northern Star.
- Dave Charnley: [to Henry] Alex won't fall for that cobblers.
- Alex Pates: Thank you.
- Dave Charnley: Oh, for god's sake!
- Gus Hedges: I must say I could never see anything wrong with the poll tax.
- Dave Charnley: Of course, yeah - it did favour people who are always gonna live on their own, didn't it?
- Damien Day: We keep arriving late at stories. AND DO YOU KNOW WHY, GUS? Because the money you've allocated me means that the only transport I was able to hire was this... show him, Jerry. Go on, show him!
- [camera pans left and reveals a dilapidated motorbike and sidecar]
- Damien Day: See?