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My concern was more international affairs. Or, foreign policy, so to speak.

7 seconds sound clip from the The Remains of the Day movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:14:52 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Oh, Dr. Carlisle, usually drops in around this time of the night. He'd be very pleased to meet you. He's a gentleman like yourself.

- Yes.

- I don't know what you call a gentleman. Seems to me it's a name every man in this country has a right to.

- There's Harry Smith now, sir, giving you an earful of his philosophy.

- It's one of the advantages and privileges of being born English that you can express your opinion freely. And voting in a member of Parliament, or vote him out. That's what we fought Hitler for in...

- Have you had much to do with politics yourself then, sir?

- Not directly as such. No... Particularly in these days. Perhaps more so in the early 1930s and just before the war.

- My concern was more international affairs. Or, foreign policy, so to speak.

- Not that I ever held high office, mind you. No, any influence I exerted was in an unofficial capacity.

- Excuse me, sir. Have you ever met Mr. Churchill?

- Yes. He came to the house occasionally and back again, in the early 1930s.

- He's a gibbering warmonger!

- He was not content to fight Germans. Wasn't he sent the troops in against the miners?

[...]

The Remains of the Day Sound Clip

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A selection of the most important quotes from The Remains of the Day (1993 film), featuring short sound bites.

Actors: Anthony Hopkins (Mr Stevens), Emma Thompson (Miss Kenton), Christopher Reeve (Congressman Jack Lewis), Hugh Grant (Reginald Cardinal), James Fox (Lord Darlington), Michael Lonsdale (Dupont d'Ivry)

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