The Girl in the Café (2005 TV Movie)

Ken Stott: Chancellor

Quotes 

• Robert : She's a pretty girl.

  Sunita : I don't call that pretty, I call that beautiful.

  Chancellor of the Exchequer : What do we think the difference is between pretty and beautiful?

  Sunita : Well, something to do with bone structure. Pretty is pretty while young, beautiful will stay beautiful forever.

• Gina : Is all right good enough? Is all right good enough for you, Mr. Gerhardt?

  Chancellor of the Exchequer : I think all right is a lot more than many expected.

  Gina : So lots more mothers die the day they give birth? Lots more children die before they're five? Lots and lots more die of diseases that are just a jab and a jolt to people like you and me?

  Herr Gerhardt : Young lady, I think it might be helpful for you to look at it the other way around - thousands will benefit from what we do today.

  Gina : I can see that, it's just, you know... tough, for those on the wrong side of the line.

• Chancellor of the Exchequer : Ladies and gentlemen, we're handing around new proposals. And remember, even if the Prime Minister and I are alone on this, we are not alone. Behind us stand the 30,000 children who will die of extreme poverty each day and we are proud to be their representatives. I didn't give my life to politics in order to say that I was part of a generation that succeeded in cutting the tariff on the import of processed coffee to 27.3%. I want to be a member of that great generation that for the first time had in its power to wipe out poverty, and did so. Are we alone in this? Or will someone else stand beside us?

• Chancellor of the Exchequer : I think we're fighting today for something as big as the abolition of slavery. So, good luck. Hold the line. Debt and aid and trade. Push for everything. But pretend you don't know it's everything.