Bob Adriano Quotes in In the Loop (2009)

Linton Barwick: My golly, I can't see why anyone would choose to work in a glass office, huh? Glass offices, in my opinion, are for perverts.

Bob Adriano: I could request the glass be frosted.

Linton Barwick: Frosting is on cakes, huh? Now, what else happened in London?

Bob Adriano: Ah, generally positive, two glitches...

Linton Barwick: Really, what?

Bob Adriano: Karen flagged a report by one of her staffers. She's obviously trying to use it as some kind of roadblock. It's called PWIP PIP.

Linton Barwick: PWIP what?

Bob Adriano: PWIP PIP.

Linton Barwick: What is it, a report on bird calls? What does it even stand for?

Bob Adriano: I can't recall. It's factish. Intel for and against intervention.

Linton Barwick: We have all the facts on this we need. We don't need any more facts. In the land of truth, my friend, the man with one fact is the king. You said there was something else, what is that?

Bob Adriano: In the meeting with the Foreign Office, the committee was accidentally and briefly alluded to.

Linton Barwick: Which committee?

Bob Adriano: The...

[quietly]

Bob Adriano: The war committee, sir.

Linton Barwick: All right, Karen is not to know about this, huh? She is an excitable, yapping she-dog. Get a hold of those minutes. I have to correct the record.

Bob Adriano: We can do that?

Linton Barwick: Yes, we can. Those minutes are an aide-memoire for us. They should not be a reductive record of what happened to have been said, but they should be more a full record of what was intended to have been said. I think that's the more accurate version, don't you?

Lt. Gen. George Miller: 12:30.

Bob Adriano: Hold on. General? Yeah... Secretary Linton Barwick asked me to let you know that his last meeting looks like it's overrunning, he sends his apologies.

Lt. Gen. George Miller: When will he be here?

Bob Adriano: I don't have that information at this moment.

Lt. Gen. George Miller: What the fuck? Huh? Did he stand me up?

Bob Adriano: No, no, sir. You're more than welcome to wait.

Lt. Gen. George Miller: Do you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to take a nice big shit on his desk, just to let him know that I was here. Is that OK with you?

Bob Adriano: I don't think he'd like that too much, sir.