The Prophecies of... Yes Prime Minister

Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, once you start interfering in the internal squabbles of other countries, you're on a very slippery slope.

Jim Hacker: That's what the Foreign Secretary said. 

Sir Humphrey: Extraordinary. 

Hacker: Then there's the U.N. vote on Israel tonight. The Americans want us to abstain. 

Sir Humphrey: It's a question of maintaining our relationship with the Arabs... The power of Islam... Oil supplies. 

Hacker: I'm talking about what's right and wrong. 

Sir Humphrey: Well, don't let the Foreign Office hear you... If you insist on an even-handed approach, the Foreign Office might agree to abstaining, so long as you authorise our man there to make a powerful speech attacking Zionism.
Hacker: Surely we should promote peace, harmony, goodwill?
Sir Humphrey: Well, it would be most unusual. The U.N. is the accepted forum for the expression of international hatred.
Hacker: And defending democracy on St George's?
Sir Humphrey: Not if it harms us by upsetting our friends.
Hacker: Britain should not support law and justice?
Sir Humphrey: Of course we should. We just shouldn't let it affect our foreign policy, that's all.
Hacker: We must fight for the weak against the strong.
Sir Humphrey: Then send troops to Afghanistan to fight the Russians.
Hacker: ...The Russians are too strong.

Yes Prime Minister, "A Victory for Democracy", aired 13th Feb 1986