- Dillon Phillips: I was just wondering if you believe in ghosts, Dad.
- Prime Minister: Absolutely, yeah. Yes, the previous Prime Minister comes back to haunt me all the time.
- Dillon Phillips: Is he dead?
- Prime Minister: No, sadly. More like undead.
- Dillon Phillips: I mean a real ghost.
- Prime Minister: No. I don't have time for ghosts, Dillon. No, they don't have votes. It's one of the conditions of being on the electoral roll. You can't be dead.
- Dillon Phillips: Mom said it was OK to bring a friend down for the weekend.
- Prime Minister: Yeah, fine. Anyone I know?
- Dillon Phillips: Uhhh, it's Flash.
- Prime Minister: Flash? But you hate Flash. Why are you inviting someone to stay with us whom you can't stand?
- Dillon Phillips: Isn't that what you're doing?
- [the PM will be hosting the Belgian Prime Minister for the weekend]
- Prime Minister: True. But this is diplomacy, Dillon. Continuation of war by other means.
- Dillon Phillips: Same here.
- Prime Minister: Yeah, all right, he can stay, as long as you behave yourself.
- Dillon Phillips: What do you mean?
- Prime Minister: Well, I don't think, for example, that the Belgian Prime Minister needs to know that you can burp 'God Save the Queen'.
- [the Prime Minister is losing at tennis with his Belgian counterpart, so he suddenly claims a hamstring injury]
- Prime Minister: I'm sorry... we're going to have to abandon. A shame, just as we were getting back into it. Sorry. Darling, can you give me a hand? I'm a bit lame.
- Clare Phillips: [sarcastically] You said it.
- [later the PM is reviewing the day with his aide/spin doctor]
- Prime Minister: So tell me honestly, how did I do?
- Duncan Packer: You were massacred.
- Prime Minister: OK, lie.
- Duncan Packer: You deliberately let him win as a matter of courtesy, since you're the host; however, yours was the tactical triumph because, since you lost so badly, he now feels sorry for you, which could mean that he lets you off the trade tariffs.
- Prime Minister: Good point. He was so desperate to win, it was almost sad. Typical Continental.
- Duncan Packer: Whereas you, and your racquet abuse, swearing at the ball boys, and faked injury displayed all the qualities of sportsmanship and fair play that makes one proud to be British.
- Prime Minister: I thought I told you to lie.