Not that I ever held high office, mind you. No, any influence I exerted was in an unofficial capacity.
11 seconds sound clip from the The Remains of the Day movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:15:00 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- There's Harry Smith now, sir, giving you an earful of his philosophy.
- Have you had much to do with politics yourself then, sir?
- My concern was more international affairs. Or, foreign policy, so to speak.
- Excuse me, sir. Have you ever met Mr. Churchill?
- Yes. He came to the house occasionally and back again, in the early 1930s.
- He was not content to fight Germans. Wasn't he sent the troops in against the miners?
- We done without him in the war here?
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