- Lane Pryce: It was our plan to distribute Christmas bonuses this year, but... quite selflessly, the partners have elected to forgo their share in the interest of rewarding the staff for a job well done.
- Roger Sterling: [silence] You're all getting Christmas bonuses, and we aren't.
- [applause]
- Roger Sterling: You know it's sacrilege to say this but Pearl Harbor was an act of genius. The only thing they didn't plan for was success. The Japs won, and they didn't know what to do with it.
- Pete Campbell: [Regarding being in the running for Jaguar] Yes, well, other than Roger, who started drinking at exactly 7:55 this morning,
- [pause]
- Pete Campbell: no one has given me the
- [pause]
- Pete Campbell: reaction I desire from this blessed event.
- [pause]
- Pete Campbell: Bert?
- Bertram Cooper: They're lemons. They never start.
- Pete Campbell: [Irritated] Meeting adjourned.
- Don Draper: Each year at this time, whether you know it or not, I look at the faces in this room who have given their all to this tenuous recovery, and I say prepare to take a great leap forward. Prepare to swim the English Channel and then drown in champagne. There are six weekends between now and the pitch. We are going to spend them all here. We will see Christmas here. We will ring in the new year together. And in the end, we will represent Jaguar, and it will be worth it. Every agency on Madison Avenue is defined by the moment they got their car. When we land Jaguar, the world will know we have arrived.
- [Applause]
- Don Draper: Creative, in my office.