Some Mother's Son (1996)

Tom Hollander: Farnsworth

Quotes 

• Farnsworth : No no no, we didn't say "their own clothes", we said "civilian style clothes".

  Harrington : Now you listen to me! I am a diplomat of Her Majesty's government. I do *not* break agreements!

  Farnsworth : Well this is war, not diplomacy.

  Harrington : Really? I distinctly remember you saying to me that it *wasn't* war!

  Farnsworth : Look, I want you to start treating these people for what they are: a bunch of terrorists. You do what it takes to draw them out into the open, and then you finish them off!

• Farnsworth : They are not soldiers. They are not guerrillas. There is no war. There is only crime.

• Farnsworth : The law clearly states that if your sons should lapse into comas, then you have the legal right to take them off the strike. Surely no mother would allow her son to die?

• Farnsworth : We want to make the prisons an asset, not a liability. It is in the prisons that we will break the backs of the IRA.