If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella.

I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.

Get back to work you slacker or you're fired.

The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.

We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.

Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.

If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.