In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

In the end we must, I think, somehow conclude that they have as much right to this planet as we have.

I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer.

The bastards murdered half my family.

A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.

We don't come here for our health.