The Journey (III) (2016)

John Hurt: Harry Patterson

Quotes 

• Harry Patterson : You feel the hand of history on your shoulder?

  Tony Blair : Around my throat more like. It's like looking at the promised land with the wrong end of a telescope.

• Harry Patterson : This time is the first time I really felt yes, there is a chance, we can do this.

  Tony Blair : Do you say this to all the prime ministers?

  Harry Patterson : Of course. Only this time I mean it.

  Tony Blair : Why now?

  Harry Patterson : Oh, because... young men fight for the hell of it, but old men care about their legacy.

• Harry Patterson : [about Ian Paisley Sr]  Fifty years of marriage... It's rumoured it's the last time he said yes to anything.

• Harry Patterson : You are young, aren't you? Twenty five, twenty six... so, old enough that you should know who these men are. They are the Troubles. They are civil war. They are anarchy.

• Harry Patterson : I've retired three times. I've had more comebacks than Sinatra.

• Tony Blair : What?

  Harry Patterson : Shut his eyes as soon as he got in. Been like that for the last ten minutes.

  Tony Blair : Oh, bloody hell!

  Harry Patterson : He's eighty one. And he hasn't been well.

  Tony Blair : Thatcher operated on four hours sleep and a pact with the devil, Paisley has the energy of ten men half his age. This is just his way of not engaging. Wake him up.