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

We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.

One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.

‎‎‎‎Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.

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.

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite.