Sits on some sort of powerful foreign affairs committee.
5 seconds sound clip from the The Remains of the Day movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:26:14 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- I thank you for your advice. Now perhaps you would allow me to go about my business.
- I never meant to keep you from your business, Mr. Stevens.
- We're also expecting the American delegate, Congressman Lewis, to arrive, on the same day.
- Well, he's rather an unknown quantity. A young congressman from Pennsylvania.
- Sits on some sort of powerful foreign affairs committee.
- A sightly heir to one of those American fortunes.
- Evidently something that Americans make a lot of money in.
- No, no. I think Mr. Lewis's fortune comes from cosmetics, actually.
- It's old Mr. Stevens! Get a cushion, quickly. A blanket!
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