People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.

It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.

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

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

And what exotic part of the world do you come from?

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.

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.